Q: I am running WinXP Pro SP2 on my laptop. everything worked fine – I could access the workgroup and all the computers on the network (by simply typing in their name. The other day I installed IIS 5.1 asp.net development to a number. After that I no longer have access to the group or computers in the workgroup by typing in their name. No other settings are changed. I can to connect them via IP address. all shares still work, but I need the IP address. I went through the Microsoft Knowledge Base and tried to narrow down the problem. From what I made of it there is something wrong with my host name resolution. I tried deleting my NICs and I even restore the files in the folder systemroot/system32 / drivers / etc ones used to install IIS. i just dont know enough about what is wrong to solve this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how to fix this?
thanks
guy
Best Answer: I presume that if your computers are in a 'Workgroup' you are using XP pro. Check to make sure that you can access 'sys2' using the UNC admin facility:
Click Start>Run>type \\sys2\c$ (this can only be done on XP Pro.
If you can connect then you have an issue with your file sharing. If you cannot connect and you are running XP Pro on 'sys2' then you need to look at your internal firewall settings. If you use Norton or similar, try disabling it and try to connect using the C$ procedure above.
If you are still having issues, try opening a command prompt from another pc on the same network and ping sys2:
type: ping sys2
If you receive all packets back then its got to be a sharing/firewall issue.
If no success post back.
Good luck
EDIT: Also a good thing to do is to disable 'Simple File Sharing', to do this:
Open My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>View>Remove the tick out of 'Use Simple File Sharing'
Doing the above can stop issues with sharing files across the network.
EDIT 2: Try not to go down the route of running the Network Setup/Sharing Wizard, sadly when you do this it makes many unwanted/un-needed and probably less secure options on your system!! Do a search to verify.
Re:thanks for the input. guy, the workgroups are the same
sideswipe001 – here is what i get when i ping by both ip and name
ping 192.168.0.2
Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
ping beaseravenue
ping request could not find host beaseravenue. Please check the name and try again.
guy – i did mean \\server, BUT both \\server and //server do not work. i need to type in the ip address for both the shares and intranet
Re:Can you ping the other computers by name, or just by IP? If you can't ping them, what message does it give you?
Re:\\IP.ADDRESS will work on a network where not all computers have the same "WORKGROUP"
Make sure they are all set on the same WORKGROUP, then your computer will know what each comp is called, and will be able to do \\COMPUTERNAME
I think thats how I solved the issue when I had it on my end.
-Monzi
Re:I asked about the way you type a name since the host file let you give a computer a Virtual name.
However you are talking about the original network name share which is not a function of the Host File. The file that might help you in your case is LMHOST.SAM
In you post above you typed //server this works in the browser in order to connect to the IIs? server, I assume you meant \\server. (backward slash).
Not resolving the name is a WINS trouble.
If you have a static IP you can resolve the problem by putting entries into the LMHOST.SAM file.
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Re:guy – when i am on the network at home, i can type for example: //server in the address bar and it goes to my server @ say ip 1.2.3.4 – i can no longer just type in //server., i need to type //1.2.3.4
i edited the hosts file and placed the ip's and names of the computers on the network. when i get home later i will see if it works. why would i need to edit my hosts file? what would cause windows from no longer automatically doing this for me?
i am also going to verify my wins and dns settings are the same as the other computers on the network – although i never manually changed any of these settings – i will confirm nothing else has changed them
thanks for the input
Re:Check your IP configuration and see if they are using the same WINs and or DNS settings. it is apparent that name resolution is not working so it is either WIN's (Windows Netbios Names) or DNS.
Re:Can you give an example of what you mean "By typing their Name"?
May be this can Help: Windows Host File- What is it and How to Mange it? (http://www.ezlan.net/host.html)
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Re:81 views and still no answer – just cant figure this one out
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