Problems seeing servers after adding router.

[Mayfriday0529]

Recently at work our department got moved to our own router to save IP addresses. Before everyone in our department had their own personal IP address and we could see everything on the network including direct connection to the servers using the Microsoft Windows Network. Now what we have is a router and a switch for about 10 computers and we have 192.168.1.x addresses and we can only access the network shares by directly connecting to them.
Example
\\server1
\\server2\printer

We can?t navigate to them since all we see now is our personal workgroup only. The connection though it?s on and off. Sometimes we see them and sometimes we don?t. Also sometimes we only see one or the other. Waiting from 10-30 minutes will reestablish the connection or fast fix is restarting the computer.

Connection to our Email server and Internet connection never fails.

Anyone have an idea what could be the problem? Seems like we need to change something on the router. Also all our systems are Windows XP SP2.

 

[blemoine]

Are your 10 workstations joined to a domain or only a workgroup? Is the other network using 192.168.1.x? Are yall using the correct DNS server?

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: blemoine
Are your 10 workstations joined to a domain or only a workgroup? Is the other network using 192.168.1.x? Are yall using the correct DNS server?

The systems are on the workgroup only, they were a workgroup before also. Computers outside our little workgroup have regular IP addresses 167.x.x.x

The Router is connecting to the correct DNS server and our systems see the same DNS server under ipconfig.

Since we have XP machines, we have turn off the Windows XP firewall to see if thats causing a problem...