Strange Network Neighborhood Problem
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Ok, whoever can solve this one for me gets a Popsicle and an "I am a Genius" hat.
I’m working on a five-peer workgroup, which consists of a mix of machines running XP Pro and Win98. Everything is fine with the group except for one of the Win98 machines. This one machine appears in the list of workgroup computers on machines with XP and in the Network Neighborhood on machines with 98. HOWEVER, when I go into the Network Neighborhood on this one particular machine it only displays the Entire Network Icon and when I click on that icon I get the following message. “Unable to browse the network. The network is not accessible. For more information, look in the Help Index at the topic 'Network Troubleshooter'.” The computer behaves as if it is not connected to the network while all the other computers behave as if it is. In addition, the computers are connected together through an eight-port router, which connects to the Internet. All the computers including the one that behaves as if it is not connected to the network can access the Internet. I’ve pretty much run though the list of suggestions offered in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for this problem and still haven’t found a solution. Here are some solutions I’ve tried so far.
-Switching ports on the hub (No effect)
-Using a completely different NIC (No effect)
-Reloading 98 over the current installation. (It’s not my computer and for a variety of reasons doing a fresh install is the solution of last resort.)
-Reloading/Updating the NIC driver (No effect)
-Moving the PCI network card to a different slot (No effect)
-Removing and reloading all network components from both the Network Neighborhood/Properties and from the Hardware Manager. (No effect)
-Pinging other computers in the workgroup. (Pings are all successful)
-Using different protocols on the network (No effect)
I am about out of ideas. If anyone can tell me how to fix this without doing a fresh reload of 98 I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I’m working on a five-peer workgroup, which consists of a mix of machines running XP Pro and Win98. Everything is fine with the group except for one of the Win98 machines. This one machine appears in the list of workgroup computers on machines with XP and in the Network Neighborhood on machines with 98. HOWEVER, when I go into the Network Neighborhood on this one particular machine it only displays the Entire Network Icon and when I click on that icon I get the following message. “Unable to browse the network. The network is not accessible. For more information, look in the Help Index at the topic 'Network Troubleshooter'.” The computer behaves as if it is not connected to the network while all the other computers behave as if it is. In addition, the computers are connected together through an eight-port router, which connects to the Internet. All the computers including the one that behaves as if it is not connected to the network can access the Internet. I’ve pretty much run though the list of suggestions offered in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for this problem and still haven’t found a solution. Here are some solutions I’ve tried so far.
-Switching ports on the hub (No effect)
-Using a completely different NIC (No effect)
-Reloading 98 over the current installation. (It’s not my computer and for a variety of reasons doing a fresh install is the solution of last resort.)
-Reloading/Updating the NIC driver (No effect)
-Moving the PCI network card to a different slot (No effect)
-Removing and reloading all network components from both the Network Neighborhood/Properties and from the Hardware Manager. (No effect)
-Pinging other computers in the workgroup. (Pings are all successful)
-Using different protocols on the network (No effect)
I am about out of ideas. If anyone can tell me how to fix this without doing a fresh reload of 98 I would appreciate it. Thanks.
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seen it loads of times on 98 and ME, I'll bet you can access the other machine if you enter it in the address bar, i.e. \\nameofotherpc\nameofshare is your primary logon set to windows networking or windows logon? it should be the formar (though it will (SHOLD) work anyway), there IS a fix somewhere on ms kb for this and I cant remember what it is, I'll look when I get home if I get chance. I hate 9x/me for networking, no end of silly problems like this.
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