Workgroup is not available.

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wOkay..I think I am about to lose what little hair I have left. I had a
network working fine, 3 computers. My wife tells me a few weeks ago that she
cannot print to a printer on the network. I check that computer with the
printer, running XP, and try to view the Workgrouop and get that familiar
error " Workgrouop is not accessible. ....." I come here and find solutions.
I have disabled Norton and MS Firewall. Still nothing. I have Client for
Microsoft Windows, File and Printer Sharing and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
I tried running browstat status and nothing came back. It seems to just
timeout. HELP!!!! I can access the internet fine.
 
I know enouph about computers to get me into trouble. I just tried to ping
the IP address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway. I got an error timed out
with the Subnet mask address. The other two worked fine. Should I get a
reply back?
 
mikelisa said:
I know enouph about computers to get me into trouble. I just tried to ping
the IP address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway. I got an error timed out
with the Subnet mask address. The other two worked fine. Should I get a
reply back?
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No, since the subnet mask isn't an IP address for an actual node on the
network.

Can you ping the machine with the printer from the other two machines on
your network?

And does the printer work OK locally (i.e. does it print OK from the
machine it's directly plugged in to)?
 
wOkay..I think I am about to lose what little hair I have left. I had a
network working fine, 3 computers. My wife tells me a few weeks ago that she
cannot print to a printer on the network. I check that computer with the
printer, running XP, and try to view the Workgrouop and get that familiar
error " Workgrouop is not accessible. ....." I come here and find solutions.
I have disabled Norton and MS Firewall. Still nothing. I have Client for
Microsoft Windows, File and Printer Sharing and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
I tried running browstat status and nothing came back. It seems to just
timeout. HELP!!!! I can access the internet fine.
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Mike,

Did you install browstat.exe first? You can download Browstat from either:
<http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip>
<http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip>
 

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