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darkcyber

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Jul 23, 2005
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Ok, I have 5 pc's connected on my LAN and they all run Windows XP Pro. I swapped one of those pc's with an older pc I had that was running Windows 2000 Pro (long story why I changed them, but it was a pc that use to be on this LAN and worked fine on it). Anyways, after I changed out that pc the Windows 2000 pc could see all of the pc's on my LAN. But after a fews days it starting dropping them and could no longer see but 1 pc on the LAN. Then 1 of my other Window XP pc's starting not seeing other pc's on the LAN either. I then upgraded the Windows 2000 pc to Windows XP Pro thinking that might help fix the problem...since that ntrights.exe will work on XP.

That didn't fix the problem even after running the ntrights fix. Then today 2 more of my pc's have starting giving me the 'Workgroup is not accessible Network path not found' error.

Getting this crap is really frustrating...I've tried all the tricks I know...anyone else got any suggestions?

Thanks!
 
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Kid Vicious

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I have three machines all hooked up through the same router all with xp pro. Here's what i figured out;

I ran the home networking wizard on all three machine, saying that each was connected directly to the internet (no residential gateway garbage) and set them all in the same workgroup.

After running the wizard and rebooting I went to the add/remove windows components on the control panel and removed the network discovery component that was installed on each machine.

Then I selected a folder (in my case the default shared docs folder on C: ). right clicked for sharing and said share anyway, ignoring security settings and the computers became visible on the lan.

If this doesn't work, try right clicking on my computer/properties and refresh the network id. setup as business computer that shares files via lan with no domain and enable file/print sharing. reboot and re-remove the network discovery component and try to share again.

apologize for the wordiness, hope it provides some insight.
 
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