can ping but cant see

#1 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 11:42 AM

i can ping from the computer but i cannot see other computers on the network or even the network itself. It is just a workgroup and ihave tried recreating the network settings on the puter

any suggestions. It used to work, not sure what happened?

thanks

RF

oh and all pcs are running xp pro

#2 sapiens74

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 01:32 PM

Can you ping by using Netbios name? Or just IP address?

#3 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 04:29 PM

i ping using ping server

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thanks

RF

#4 Silver-Dagger

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Posted 27 December 2003 - 07:24 PM

sounds like you have a master browser conflict. I get the same problem on my local network whenever I reboot my server. You can check which machine is the master browser by typing nbtstat -n in a command prompt. The way to correct this is to stop and start the computer browser service on your server.

#5 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 29 December 2003 - 01:04 PM

okie dokie done that......
i get this.....

Network Bridge (Network Bridge):
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.229] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
PCTOOLBOX <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <00> GROUP Registered
PCTOOLBOX <20> UNIQUE Registered
PCTOOLBOX <03> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <1E> GROUP Registered
PCTOOLBOX <01> UNIQUE Registered

when i run it on my machine but i have no idea what it all means

could someone help?

thanks

oh homenet is the nework and my computer is pctoolbox

#6 Radioactive Frog

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Posted 30 December 2003 - 12:51 AM

Also when i run that command on the server i get the following
C:\>nbtstat -n

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.1] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
SERVER <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <00> GROUP Registered
SERVER <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <1E> GROUP Registered
SERVER <03> UNIQUE Registered
ADMIN <03> UNIQUE Registered

ADSL PCI Modem:
Node IpAddress: [xx.xx.xx.xx] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
SERVER <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <00> GROUP Registered
SERVER <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <1E> GROUP Registered

any help?
thanks

RF