XP computer suddenly blocked from workgroup

31 Jan 2009 10:28 AM

David K

We have 5 PCs on a workgroup.

Everything was working fine, including network printing
and visibility and mapping of shared resources. Every PC
could see all the others in the workgroup.

Suddenly 1 PC cannot see the workgroup - even itself!
Get the standard message re check permissions etc.

Other PCs IPs can be pinged, have rerun the network setup wizard,
checked firewall settings. Changed the workgroup name on the
problem PC - it still is not allowed to access its own shares.

The users are not sophisticated and did not change any settings.

Where should I be looking? What can cause this to happen?

David K, melbourne.au

31 Jan 2009 4:16 PM

Robert L. (MS-MVP)

It could be 3rd party software issue. For troubleshooting try clean boot.
Windows general
How to run Windows OS with a clean boot · How to Run Windows Safe Mode
with Networking · How to setup DHCP for IP Phone How to sort programs in
Start ...
www.howtonetworking.com/Windows/windowsgeneral.htm

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"David K" <noema***@thanks.you> wrote in message
news:upd$j64gJHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> We have 5 PCs on a workgroup.
>
> Everything was working fine, including network printing
> and visibility and mapping of shared resources. Every PC
> could see all the others in the workgroup.
>
> Suddenly 1 PC cannot see the workgroup - even itself!
> Get the standard message re check permissions etc.
>
> Other PCs IPs can be pinged, have rerun the network setup wizard,
> checked firewall settings. Changed the workgroup name on the
> problem PC - it still is not allowed to access its own shares.
>
> The users are not sophisticated and did not change any settings.
>
> Where should I be looking? What can cause this to happen?
>
> David K, melbourne.au

11 Feb 2009 9:36 PM

Alain Bourgeois

Hi David,

I had nearly the same problem.
It was due to nod32 antivirus/fw config. Although it was disabled, it seems
incoming udp was blocked.
The computer browsing network has sent requests, but udp answers from other
computers were blocked. There was a checkbox in nod32 network config, and it
works now. I didn't change anything to network config.

Regards,
Alain
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"David K" <noema***@thanks.you> wrote in message
news:upd$j64gJHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> We have 5 PCs on a workgroup.
>
> Everything was working fine, including network printing
> and visibility and mapping of shared resources. Every PC
> could see all the others in the workgroup.
>
> Suddenly 1 PC cannot see the workgroup - even itself!
> Get the standard message re check permissions etc.
>
> Other PCs IPs can be pinged, have rerun the network setup wizard,
> checked firewall settings. Changed the workgroup name on the
> problem PC - it still is not allowed to access its own shares.
>
> The users are not sophisticated and did not change any settings.
>
> Where should I be looking? What can cause this to happen?
>
> David K, melbourne.au