Can't see other pc's in my workgroup

5 Dec 2006 9:59 PM

Mortgage World

I have 5 pcs in a peer to peer network (via netopia wirelessrouter), and only
one of them can see the others. The one that can see the others is hardwired,
but even when I hardwire the others, they still aren't visible. Please help.

5 Dec 2006 10:44 PM

Chuck

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:59:01 -0800, Mortgage World <Mortgage
Wo***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have 5 pcs in a peer to peer network (via netopia wirelessrouter), and only
>one of them can see the others. The one that can see the others is hardwired,
>but even when I hardwire the others, they still aren't visible. Please help.

One of the most common causes of this problem would be a misconfigured or
overlooked personal firewall, or other security component, causing an SMB
problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/irregularities-in-workgroup-visibility.html

Let's start by looking at "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each
computer, so we can diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked
articles, and follow instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

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