W2K/XP Pro File Sharing

[ksdadguy]

I have seven XP Pro machines in a workgroup. All works fine there. However, when I bring my laptop into the office (It is running W2K Pro) and add to the workgroup, I am seen by all the other machines, but I can't see them.

Any suggestions on where to look. I know W2K seems to have dreams of power assertion, but this is ridiculous!

 

[bcastner]

Turn off the Computer Browser service on your machine. You are losing the browsing wars to the XP clients.

 

[ksdadguy]

No luck...even tried reconfiguring workgroup, rebooting, etc.. shutting down browser is not the trick...

 

[bcastner]

Disable/turn off any firewall.
If Zone Alarm or Sygate you may need to stop the firewall from even starting using Msconfig.

 

[bcastner]

And if you are using PC-Illan anti-virus, it installs a firewall by default that will exhibit the symptoms you have.

You need to go to the options for the program and turn off the firewall.