unable to see the computer in my network

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I am having a problem browsing the network.
98% of the time I can not browse the network thru My Network Place or net view. But I am able get to the computer by using \\computer_name\folder_name.

Can any one help?????
 
Are you getting an error? If so, what is it? Do these remote computers
have shares setup that you're trying to access? Is the server service
running on them? Can you resolve the computer by name? Etc.

Ray at work

Michael said:
I am having a problem browsing the network.
98% of the time I can not browse the network thru My Network Place or net
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view. But I am able get to the computer by using
\\computer_name\folder_name.
 
When I try to browse using the Network Place I got "Network Path Not Found". When I use the command line I got " Network cannot be reached"

All the remote computers have share setup.

The only way I can access them in the Network Place address bar by using the \\computer_name.

I hope this helps...

Michael

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Are you getting an error? If so, what is it? Do these remote computers
have shares setup that you're trying to access? Is the server service
running on them? Can you resolve the computer by name? Etc.

Ray at work

Michael said:
I am having a problem browsing the network.
98% of the time I can not browse the network thru My Network Place or net
Click to expand...
view. But I am able get to the computer by using
\\computer_name\folder_name.
 
Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and enter:

ping NameOfComputer
What is the result?

Then enter:
net view NameOfComputer

What is the result?

Ray at work

Michael said:
When I try to browse using the Network Place I got "Network Path Not
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Found". When I use the command line I got " Network cannot be reached"
 
when I ping the comptuer, it replies the ip address. When I net view the computer, it gave me the thing shared on that computer.

Michael
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Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and enter:

ping NameOfComputer
What is the result?

Then enter:
net view NameOfComputer

What is the result?

Ray at work

Michael said:
When I try to browse using the Network Place I got "Network Path Not
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Found". When I use the command line I got " Network cannot be reached"
 
Interesting. So, what have we determined so far?

Q: Is your computer able to resolve host names?
A: Yes

Q: Does the remote computer have the server service running?
A: Yes

Q: Does the remote computer have shares?
A: Yes


Other things I can think of just for the sake of thinking of something new.

Do a "net view RemoteComputer" and pick your share name of choice. Then
enter:

net use * \\remoteComputer\YourShareNameOfChoice /p:n

What's that result?

Also, do you have share and NTFS permissions to the share you're trying to
access?

Also enter this:
nbtstat -a RemoteComputerName

Is there an entry with <20> in it? Although the fact that the "net view"
returned share names pretty much indicates that the server service is
running, I guess it won't hurt to check for that in a different way by
looking for the server service entry in the netbios table, which is the <20>
entry.

Ray at work


Michael said:
when I ping the comptuer, it replies the ip address. When I net view the
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computer, it gave me the thing shared on that computer.
 
When I do "net view" in Win XP it gave me the following

System Error 51 has occure

Windows cannot find the network path...

Michae
----- Ray at <%=sLocation%> wrote: ----

Interesting. So, what have we determined so far

Q: Is your computer able to resolve host names
A: Ye

Q: Does the remote computer have the server service running
A: Ye

Q: Does the remote computer have shares
A: Ye


Other things I can think of just for the sake of thinking of something new

Do a "net view RemoteComputer" and pick your share name of choice. The
enter

net use * \\remoteComputer\YourShareNameOfChoice /p:

What's that result

Also, do you have share and NTFS permissions to the share you're trying t
access

Also enter this
nbtstat -a RemoteComputerNam

Is there an entry with <20> in it? Although the fact that the "net view
returned share names pretty much indicates that the server service i
running, I guess it won't hurt to check for that in a different way b
looking for the server service entry in the netbios table, which is the <20
entry

Ray at wor


Michael said:
when I ping the comptuer, it replies the ip address. When I net view th
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computer, it gave me the thing shared on that computer
 
So then you lied in your previous post. That was helpful. Make sure the
server service is running on the remote machine.

Ray at work
 
What service are you talking about??

browsing ability works sometimes but only 2% of the time...

Michae
----- Ray at <%=sLocation%> wrote: ----

So then you lied in your previous post. That was helpful. Make sure th
server service is running on the remote machine

Ray at wor
 
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