Cannot view shared folders

Jun 12, 2006 3 Replies

Hi there all, A new guy has move into my Halls in University. He has connected his PC



to our LAN - He can use the internet with no problems. On our LAN we have 7 wired computers all on the MSHOME Workgroup... we can all see each other eg for file sharing etc.



The problem is, is that he cannot see us and we can't see him on the network. When he clicks my network places he cannot see anything.


He is uaing Win Xp SP2.


He has Norton Internet Security Installed. Even when I disable this nothing happens.


He can ping other computers on the network but he cannot map the drives.


Can anyone give a hint as to what the problem is.


Below is a paste from I/P config:


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.


C:\\Documents and Settings\\Peter>ipcinfig/all 'ipcinfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.


C:\\Documents and Settings\\Peter>ipconfig/all


Windows IP Configuration


Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : BryanBaguley Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:


Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family



Fast Eth ernet NIC Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D4-1B-9F-1D Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::213:d4ff:fe1b:9f1d%4 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 12 June 2006 13:04:22 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 13 June 2006 13:04:22


Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:


Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5445:5245:444f%5 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled


Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:


Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface


Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C0-A8-00-03 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.0.3%2 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled


Note... he can play online game with other users of the network with no



probs.


Thanks loads, Shay



NIS doesn't magically stop f****ng up your network by just disabling. You need to uninstall it and, because it's so lousy, even verify that the uninstall procedure suceeded (or clean it up yourself).

;-D

Well, who wonders? Windows Shares are only one single application on the basis of TCP/IP.

Well, either there is another personal FW like XP's FW active that's still blocking.

Maybe, the computer is not using the same network protocols as the other machines.

Or, there could be some kind of concurrent connection issue on a P2P as XP Home only allows 5 and Pro 10.

Duane :)

s/concurrent/simultanous/

Concurrent connections are only available on a beta version of XPSP2. (Yeah, you can rip off the termsrv.dll from there and beat your system into eating it.)

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