View Workgroup Computers

[Panman616]

View workgroup computers is showing no computers, then says it unaccessable and see the system administrator.....i have tried everything including:

-ran set up small office network wizard
-uninstallled and reinstalled NIC
-Shared the C drive
-unchecked the firewall on networking advanced setting tab
-uninstalled network utilities and reloaded them under
-add/remove programs

this is not the first tiem i have seen this either.....so i figure someone knows how to fix it.....i need to share my printer on my home network, but i can't get at it because the computer it is on can't even see itself.

when i run "search for computer' and type the name of computer in it it sees it.......can anyone help me on this
thanks

 

[linney]

As you experiment and change this and that, rebooting may be necessary for any change to take place.

Can you Ping the various computers?

xp networking without using wizard
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http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/addxp.htm

http://www.wown.com/

 

[bcastner]

. TCP/IP Properties, Advanced, WINS tab, 'enable Netbios over TCP/IP'

. Since it is likely Simple file sharing is set to its default setting, enable the Guest account.