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I will deal with these questions one at a time, but you will get a complete
picture when I describe the network.
WorkGroup: YELREG
User1: YELREG1
User2: YELREG2
User3: YELREG3
User4: YELREGMAN
User5: YELREGJES
There is another cut down W2K machine used for imaging that does not appear to
use netbios on the network and is not accessible (government machine). All the
rest are XP Pro SP2. All machines can connect explicitly with one another;
they just can't browse. All I have to do is connect one W2K machine to the
network and all machines can browse. I maintain another all XP network and it
has no problem browsing. But they are all SP1 and this one is all SP2.
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>Interesting... the plot thickens.
>
>I found this and was playing around with it a bit:
>http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm
>
>Here are some things I found that we should look at a little more closely or
>at least confirm. I apologize if these seem to rudimentary, or that you may
>have already gone over them. I think we both know and agree your current
>setup should just work out of the box. Agreed? So there's something
>hindering the service from operating on that one machine, or all of them
>(for whatever reason). Also, most of the links I've found researching this
>all point to the firewall service, but since you have it disabled on all
>machines, I've been discarding those hits.
> 1.. Check all NetBIOS names for possible duplicates. For example, if the
>workgroup name coincides with a user or computer name, this could cause the
>problem. Try opening a command line window and issuing the command: net view
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Net view responds with System Error 6118
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> 2.. Issue the command: net view \\computername, where computername should
>be replaced with one of the names displayed with the simple net view
>command. Check all names for possible duplication.
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No problem. Shows resources on other machine.
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> 3.. Disable, better yet uninstall or upgrade, all antivirus software and
>third party firewalls. Check to see if they perform network montoring.
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No firewall. AVG antivirus with no network monitoring.
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> 4.. Rid the computer of adware and spyware.
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None present. Relatively new setups.
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> 5.. Repair the Winsock with the command: netsh winsock reset (This removes
>all third party Layered Service Providers-LSPs.
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Done
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> 6.. Computers running older operating systems than Windows XP may disturb
>the computer browser system. If there are any devices on the network that is
>capable of interfering, let's stop them as well.
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All XP Pro SP2, except one as noted above.
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> 7.. Make sure that the TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service is running and has
>the proper start type.
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Service enabled on Manual startup.
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> 8.. Make sure MS Client & File and Print Sharing is enabled.
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Enabled
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> 9.. Uninstall third party client software that can interfere with the
>networking settings. Such software could have come with network adapters or
>with a router.
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None present.
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> 10.. Force it to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP under NIC properties, IP
>Properties, Advanced, WINS tab.
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Done. Was on default using fixed IP address.
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> 11.. I remember mentioning browcon.exe, but you didn't post any results or
>if you have tried it, and assume you have already done so without the
>desired results.
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I did not try Browcon because the article said that it was only applicable to
Server 2003. This network is all XP.
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> 12.. Let's also take a look at browstat. It will show you if browsing is
>enabled on the network and who the master browser is. You can download
>Browstat from
http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/browstat.zip
>or http://rescomp.stanford.edu/staff/manual/rcc/tools/browstat.zip. Here is
>a link from Microsoft on it's use:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188305
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Browstat status returns:
Browsing not active on domain.
Master Browser cannot be determined for GetAdapterStatus
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>Here's another interesting thing I found as well:
>
>*Begin procedure:
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>You have both the following symptoms:
> a.. You can ping the computer by IP and by name.
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Yes
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> b.. When you type on another computer, replacing computername with the
>name of the inaccessible computer:
> net view \\computername
> you get one of the various "Error 5" error messages, like "System error 5
>has occurred. Access is denied" or "Error 5: You do not currently have
>access to this file. ..."
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Shows resources available on that particular machine. No errors.
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>This is in some cases caused by a registry setting named RestrictAnonymous.
>Go to the computer which you cannot access, start a registry editor and
>change the following registry value.
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> \SYSTEM
> \CurrentControlSet
> \Control
> \Lsa
> Value name: RestrictAnonymous
> Value type: DWORD
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DWORD value is 0
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>If the value is 1 or even 2, change it to 0, reboot and retest. If the
>problem is solved, leave the value at zero. If not, you can change it back
>if you like.
>
>*End of procedure.
>
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>
>Another interesting one:
>
>*Begin procedure:
>
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>
>Another related and surprisingly frequent problem beside disabled NetBIOS
>over TCP/IP is the setting of an unsuitable node type for Windows networks
>(which use NetBIOS). If you don't see other computers in Network
>Neighborhood or My Network Places, then this computer may have the wrong
>node type. If you get error messages when you try to access another
>computer, then you may have to walk over to that other computer and perform
>the following steps there.
>
>First check the node type by opening a command line window and typing the
>command
>
> ipconfig /all
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Node Type is hybrid.
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>This command reports the node type, among other information. It should be
>Hybrid or Unknown, but not Point-to-Point (p-node, actually a mistaken
>interpretation of Peer-to-Peer), because that would work only when a WINS
>server is present.
>
>If the node type is P-t-P, you can use regedit.exe to go to
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
> \System
> \CurrentControlSet
> \Services
> \Netbt
> \Parameters
>
> and delete any of the two values NodeType and DhcpNodeType if they exist,
>forcing Windows to fall back to its default node type, which should be
>Hybrid. Reboot.
>
> More details can be found in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
>article.
>
> Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=160177
>
>*End procedure
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>
>
>Well, that's about it for right now. Other than this, I'm not sure what is
>going on. Like I said, it should just work out-of-the-box.
>
>Let me know what you find with the above information.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ace
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Thanks for all the suggestions, but this still appears to be strictly an SP2
issue from where I sit.
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