Workgroup can't be accessed

[DanaK]

I'm running a mixed workgroup of 9x and W2K workstations,
XP will be online soon. I don't have a domain server with
DNS or DHCP. I'm having problems with the
workstations "seeing" each other even though they're in
the same IP range (192.168.x.x) and workgroup name.
Initially they could see each other and share printers but
they can't find each other now. I have installed Norton
Internet Security and Firewall service. Could this have
anything to do with it?

I can't successfully ping the other workstations either.
I've enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP on both the 9x and W2K
workstations but this didn't change anything. I have a
router that has a built in DHCP service. Do I need to
enable this? I've just set the workstations to use static
IPs on our private LAN but the DNS servers are our ISP's.
Are the workstations querying the ISP's DNS servers and
coming up empty resulting in an inability to browse our
network? Am I going to have to write a LMHosts file?

Thanks.

 

[DanaK]

I've written and imported the LMHOSTS file on both the
98SE and W2K Pro workstations but this still didn't change
anything. I can't access any workstation on our LAN with
the workstations but I can access the Internet just fine
as well as ping my ISP's DNS servers from these
workstations.

 

[Jetro]

You should relax Norton Firewall. By default any firewall w/o rules blocks
everything.

 

[DanaK]

Thanks, I'm away from the office today but I'll look into
it as quickly as I can.