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Anyone know the answer to this one!
After months of faultless WIFI, today for some unknown reason none of my PCs can see any other one. When I do a netview, I get Error message 6118. All PCs are XP SP2, the network is 802.11g. SOme of them are using Zone Alarm some are not. ZA has not been a problem usually. They all see the internet OK. Here is an attachment showing the outcome of a net view. |
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Did zonealarm update today?
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Tis not your hardware looks more network netbios issue :
Check you've not turned netbios off or that the firewalls are stopping NETBIOS. nbtstat /? may be friend also for debugging snip 6118 System error 6118 has occurred. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available Covers a multitude of sins. Could be literany anmything from incorrect WINS settings, the network cable not being plugged in, incorrect firewall configuration, or NetBIOS turned off on the adapter |
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Hello ZA updated on 1 PC yesterday I think. However I've disable ZA on this PC and there is still a problem.......
Also.....I've not fiddled with any settings |
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can you still access the machines without using their netbios names ie \\ipaddress\c$ \\ipaddress\sharename etc eg \\192.168.0.10\c$ All executed from the start > run prompt |
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I can't ping the machines.....if that's what you mean
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eg from a command prompt ping 192.168.0.3 please also check that you are pinging the right address find your ipaddress by using ipconfig (within the command prompt) |
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All the firewalls are off now (except the router....I assume I'm safe behind that.
I do net view and I can see one other PC. There are 2 others out there somewhere! ---------- Post added at 20:54 ---------- Previous post was at 20:50 ---------- BTW, what are Zone Alarm updates all about. Are they necessary or are they (as I suspect) just a way of keeping it in your frontal lobes and irritating you into buying the paid-for version? |
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ipconfig /all on all the pcs to check that their ips are correct ? |
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here goes on IP config..... I'll just run along and try it on one PC
---------- Post added at 21:08 ---------- Previous post was at 21:02 ---------- Oooooh progress. When I did that, I found that the other 2 PCs can see each other....revealed by netview. It seems we have a a lovey dovey network now. Two couples! I think one pair is on mshome the other pair is on workgroups. Could this be the issue? What do you call these parts of the network? Can I just drag and drop them into 'workgroups' or something. Might it be as simple as that? |
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my computer > properties > network name id : make sure all machines are in the same workgroup reboot |
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my computer > properties > network name id : make sure all machines are in the same workgroup reboot
don't seem to have that in my properties..................OK found it......I'll try |
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Before I do that...look at this.....all 4 pcs seem to be on view again. I didn't do anything to make this happen.....
but netview still only sees 2 of them I would have thought that they would have to be visible to netview to show up in windows explorer |
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Just slap them all into one job done. |
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OK,
Shifting workgroups seems to do the trick. Just so I know, is there a way of making workgroups see one another anyway? Thanks folks |
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