hardwarecrazy 0 Posted July 7, 2005 Hi, I recently overhauled a good working home network and landed myself in trouble. Some wrong setting somewhere is preventing me to connect to a Client computer on the network. Linksys Router Windows 2000 Server (Call it computerS) Windows 2000 Pro Client (Call it computerC) Both belong to the same 'Workgroup' Problem: Each do not communicate with the other. MS Windows Network Message box says "Workgroup not accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available" Clicking "computers near me" on the Server lists the Client computer name, but double clicking the Client computers' name says "\\computerC is not accessible. The NW path not found" Clicking the "computers near me" on the Client DOES NOT list the Server name, but searching for the Server by name like \\ComputerS lists the Server in Workgroup but cannot access it. Linksys's DHCP Table lists both computers. Both computers can access Internet without any issues. Please help - it is driving me crazy! Many thanks in advance. Share this post Link to post
Wilhelmus 1 Posted July 7, 2005 Can you see the your workgroup on Entire Network/Microsoft Network? Do you get the same error? Check that you have NetBIOS enabled. For DHCP assigned IP-address, check option "Use NetBIOS setting from the DHCP server", and for static IP-adress "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP". If this does not fix it,1) then you need force browser election. Like restarting all computers in workgroup. 2) And make sure that Computer Browser-service is Enabled and Automatic in Services application. Quote: Computer Browser: Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers. If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or maintained. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start. 3) For server browser computerS: Start->Run: "regedit". HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\IsBrowseMaster registry subkey to "TRUE". HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\MaintainServerList registry subkey to "yes". By changing this setting to "yes," the computer becomes a preferred browser server. Try those Share this post Link to post
