XP Home Ed Network Problems

[Guest]

2 m/c's both XP home, can ping each other.
m/c A is mian machine cannot see other pc's when using IP address to map
network drive, m/c B cannot see machine A when trying to Map net work drive
M/c B can see machine C which is W2K laptop, m/c A cannot see it.

Ping all three machines from and to each other works fine.

All machine can connect via my linksys router to the internet with no
problems.

I used to be able to map from m/c A but have not knowingly changed anything,
perhaps adaware or similar program has corrupted registries, any idesa, I am
out of my depth

 

[Chuck]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 08:35:03 -0800, "Andy in the UK" <Andy in the

2 m/c's both XP home, can ping each other.
m/c A is mian machine cannot see other pc's when using IP address to map
network drive, m/c B cannot see machine A when trying to Map net work drive
M/c B can see machine C which is W2K laptop, m/c A cannot see it.

Ping all three machines from and to each other works fine.

All machine can connect via my linksys router to the internet with no
problems.

I used to be able to map from m/c A but have not knowingly changed anything,
perhaps adaware or similar program has corrupted registries, any idesa, I am
out of my depth

Andy,

With any problem "I can't see one computer from another", I'd start with looking
for a browser (I'm not talking about Internet Explorer) problem.

With a network of 3 or more computers, identify the two computers that are
typically online the most, and designate them the browsers for the LAN.

Make sure the browser service is running on the browser computers. Control
Panel - Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer Browser, and
the TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, services both show with Status = Started. Disable
the browser on the third computer.

After making any browser setting changes, power all 3 computers off to reset all
3 simultaneously. Then power them back on.

The Microsoft Browstat program will show us what browsers you have in your
domain / workgroup, at any time.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305

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>

Browstat is very small (40K), and needs no install. Just unzip the downloaded
file, copy browstat.exe to any folder in the Path, and run it from a command
window, by "browstat status". Make sure all computers give the same result.

For more information about the browser subsystem (very intricate), see:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188001
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=188305
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/deploy/prodspecs/ntbrowse.mspx>

 

[Guest]

I'm giving it a try and will report

 

[Guest]

Chuck

That has not worked, I do have some new information appear when I IPCONFIG
from the dos promp though, I am getting a second IP Address under subnet mask
with the following info

fe80::230:4ff:fe40:855%4

Never had that before, all this effort is avoid re loading winXP and losing
everything I have on my pc, is ther some other way I can re install win XP
without losing everything

is there someone who can view my pc remotely to see if ther is a problem

andy


I can still PING both pc's from my main machine but neither can be see in ne

 

[Guest]

If you have a firewal running, check that. (windows, or norton security.)
Disable it, and try again. if that works, set it to "trust the local network".
also, if this is professional addition, make sure users have passwords on
login setup.

 

[Chuck]

Chuck

That has not worked, I do have some new information appear when I IPCONFIG
from the dos promp though, I am getting a second IP Address under subnet mask
with the following info

fe80::230:4ff:fe40:855%4

Never had that before, all this effort is avoid re loading winXP and losing
everything I have on my pc, is ther some other way I can re install win XP
without losing everything

is there someone who can view my pc remotely to see if ther is a problem

andy

Andy,

That was simply the best possibilities. There's plenty more we can do though.
A remote debugging session is a good thing to try, but to solve networking
problems, you have to do some initial work.

If you're running IPV6 (aka Teredo Tunneling), that may be part of the problem,
or it may hamper diagnosis of the problem.

Please start by un installing IPV6, aka Advanced Networking, from the list of
items under (Settings - Network Connections) - Local Area Connection Properties.
You only need the following items in the list:
Client for Microsoft Networks
File and Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks
QoS Packet Scheduler (optional)
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

If you need IPV6, you can install it later. After you get file sharing working.

Please provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, make sure that Format - Word Wrap is
NOT checked!, copy and paste entire contents into your next post. Identify
operating system (by name, version, and SP level) with each ipconfig listing.

 

[Carey Holzman]

www.careyholzman.com/net1.htm

Carey

 

[Guest]

I had the exact same problem and the exact same ipfconfig results. There are
two ways to solve it. One is to manually configure your network settings by
specifying an IP address and the DNS servers. The simpler solution is to
just uninstall Internet Protocol version 6 in the LAN properties box but
then you need to clear the DNS cache by running ipconfig /clearcache or
something like that, then disable your network connection, reboot, then
re-enable your network connection, then you are fine. After that, when you
run ipconfig /all, you get the normal settings and can access all sites fine.
To test it, I then re-installed IPv6 and all the problems came back. The
problem has to do with most routers not being able to deal with IPv6. What
is odd is that SP-2 does not automatically install IPv6 in most cases. But I
bought a new Dell computer and it came installed and caused me all kinds of
problems until I uninstalled IPv6. Of course that is not the long-term
solution becuase IPv6 is the future, but you have to do something until this
is resolved.