Chuck
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Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:
Re: PAIN in the rear Home Networking... |
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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 06:37:06 -0800, rab <rab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Consider me a total novice. However, my son has tried to help and is still
stumped. we have a DLink Router. we have a Dell XP 2002 very nice system
and just bought a new Dell xp professional. it is the bomb computer. my son
has a new Dell laptop. All 3 computers access the internet on the router.
but none of them can share the printer. son has made shared files, but the
oldes 2002 computer says "network unaccessible" or something like that. so
we can't really share anything. its simplyl like having us all on individual
lines. how do i fix this? pleas help....
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Freda,
Networking computers is a lot of fun, but there are quite a few things that can
go wrong.
Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?
Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?
Identify the two computers that typically are online the most, and designate
them the browser computers.
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.
Power all three computers off, to reset the browser configuration on each.
Power the browser computers back on, then power the third computer on.
On any XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel -
Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With XP Pro,
you need to have SFS consistently set on each computer.
On XP Pro with SFS disabled, check the Local Security Policies (Control Panel -
Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security Options, look at
"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure it's set to "Classic -
local users authenticate as themselves".
On XP Pro with SFS disabled, if you set the above Local Security Policy to
"Guest only", enable the Guest account, using Start - Run - "cmd" - type "net
user guest /active:yes" in the command window. If "Classic", setup and use a
common non-Guest account on all computers. Whichever account is used, give it
an identical, non-blank password on all computers.
On XP Home, and on XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the
Guest account is enabled, on each computer. Enable Guest with Start - Run -
"cmd", then type "net user guest /active:yes" in the command window.
On XP Pro, if you're going to use Guest authentication, check your Local
Security Policy (Control Panel - Administrative Tools) - User Rights Assignment,
on the XP Pro computer, and look at "Deny access to this computer from the
network". Make sure Guest is not in the list.
Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF / WF, or third party)? If
so, you need to configure them for file sharing. Firewall configurations are a
very common cause of (network) browser, and file sharing, problems.
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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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