Workgroup Access

[Guest]

I have a crazy situation. There's a work group setup and all workstations on
the workgroup can run a program from one of the other workstations with no
trouble. The recently cannot access the workgroup and run the application.
What's odd is if I try to browse the workgroup from any of the machines none
of them has access to it even though it's listed in the Properties of the
computer for the computer name and workgroup.

I've taken the affected machine off the workgroup put it back on and still
no luck. I cannot ping the workgroup by machine name at all. I can use IP's
but that's it.

Any ideas? I know next to nothing about work groups as all I've ever done is
work on domains. Is there a workgroups overview that I can read somewhere or
does this problem have a clean solution that someone is aware of?

Thanks in advance!

- Rex

 

[Chuck]

I have a crazy situation. There's a work group setup and all workstations on
the workgroup can run a program from one of the other workstations with no
trouble. The recently cannot access the workgroup and run the application.
What's odd is if I try to browse the workgroup from any of the machines none
of them has access to it even though it's listed in the Properties of the
computer for the computer name and workgroup.

I've taken the affected machine off the workgroup put it back on and still
no luck. I cannot ping the workgroup by machine name at all. I can use IP's
but that's it.

Any ideas? I know next to nothing about work groups as all I've ever done is
work on domains. Is there a workgroups overview that I can read somewhere or
does this problem have a clean solution that someone is aware of?

Thanks in advance!

- Rex

Rex,

One of the most common causes of this problem would be a misconfigured or
overlooked personal firewall, or other security component, probably on the
problem computer. There are several other possibilities too, and any might be
the cause of your problem. Read this article with an open mind.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html

And is NetBT Enabled on the problem computer?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/04/netbios-over-tcpip.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/04/netbios-over-tcpip.html

You could look at "browstat status", "ipconfig /all", "net config server", and
"net config workstation", from the problem computer, and from 2 good computers,
and diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow
instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp