Windows Networking Issue between Offices

[tkedar]

We have three offices in the same premises. Main office has a router
and we have ethernet cables from this router to Secondary Office A and
Secondary Office B. The main office can see all the computers and
printers in the secondary offices and vice versa.

But shared computers and printers are not visible between Secondary
office A and Secondary office B.

The subnet mask and Gateway are identical on all computers and all
computers are part of the same workgroup.

Any help or sugestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chuck]

We have three offices in the same premises. Main office has a router
and we have ethernet cables from this router to Secondary Office A and
Secondary Office B. The main office can see all the computers and
printers in the secondary offices and vice versa.

But shared computers and printers are not visible between Secondary
office A and Secondary office B.

The subnet mask and Gateway are identical on all computers and all
computers are part of the same workgroup.

Any help or sugestions would be greatly appreciated.

Asymmetrical visibility like yours is most frequently caused by a misconfigured
or overlooked firewall. There are other possibilities too.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html

If no help from the above, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from
each computer, as a start. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow
instructions precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp