Computer will not see network

[DTSMAN]

I have a computer that goes onto the Internet through the gateway just fine but will not see the other computers on the network. It is set to obtain and I have done a repair. I remember this happening to me once before and someone had me run netstat with some switches that cleared the tcp\ip stack. Do I need to do this again? Or could I have another issue? System is Windows XP home, one NIC.

Bo

Remember,
If the women don't find you handsome,
they should at least find you handy.
(Red Green)

 

[DTSMAN]

I meant to mention that I can ping the other computers.

Bo

Remember,
If the women don't find you handsome,
they should at least find you handy.
(Red Green)

 

[DTSMAN]

It is slowly coming to me as I search for the answer. The command is actually a "netsh winsock" command that resets the stack. So again any help would by great.

Bo

Remember,
If the women don't find you handsome,
they should at least find you handy.
(Red Green)

 

[gdvissch]

If you can ping the machines what do you mean by "can not see the machines"?

You mean in network neighbourhoud, or can not map network drives?

It might be related to the firewall on "the other" machines. Just for testing disable the firewall on one of the pc's and see if you can connect to it...

CU
Geert

 

[DTSMAN]

It was not showing up when selecting show workgroup computers or on a search. I found a utlity in the FAQs for Tek-Tips for winsock reset. I can now ping and search, but view workgroup computers never came back. Customer will not use that feature anyway so got it networked and mapped and sent it on its way.
Thanks for the reply.
I had a similar problem a year ago where the network worked fine, but could not get on the internet. And someone posted a command that was "netsh winsock something" that blew out the tcpip call stack and that fixed that problem that time and I am sure this was about the same thing, just a little different.

Bo

Remember,
If the women don't find you handsome,
they should at least find you handy.
(Red Green)

 

[gdvissch]

Don't know about that specific command but to me it looks like a domain browser prolem.
Is the "computer browser" service running on the PC's? This is the service that maintains the list of computers of the subnet. there is a Microsoft tool called browmon that queries the network to see if all is fine ... see

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/155/05/2.html

for what it's still worth ...

CU
G.