can ping but cant see

[Radioactive Frog 0]

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

[sapiens74 0]

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

[Radioactive Frog 0]

i ping using ping server

 

.....

 

thanks

 

RF

[Silver-Dagger 0]

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.

[Radioactive Frog 0]

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

[Radioactive Frog 0]

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