XP Laptop can't see network share

[SimpleSi]

Got a strange one with a teacher laptop.

 

It doesn't seem to be able to see UNC shares e.g \\server1\classwork

 

If you try and browse the network it only sees itself in the list of machines

 

I got used to seeing this on Win98 machines but I've never encounted it on XP machines

 

It can ping the server OK and works fine on T'internet and prints to my Business Inket via TCP/IP 8O

 

I feel it must be something simple but its befuddled me so far

 

Help!

 

regards

 

Simon

[Geoff]

Is this a peer to peer network or a AD domain?

[SimpleSi]

Well the server is W2k3 but the machine is not joined to the domain - just used as a simple file server.

 

regards

 

Simon

[Geoff]

Presumably the machine is using DHCP to get it's network settings though? Can you verify the network settings are correct, especially the netmask and DNS server settings?

[SimpleSi]

net settings seem fine

netmask 255.255.255.0

DNS 10.81.62.4

DHCP 10.81.62.4

 

(Server IS 10.81.62.4 )

 

I've another identical laptop and the differences between them are

 

ipconfig /all on duff one is saying

 

Node Type Unknown

 

and

 

NetBIOS over Tcpip Disabled

 

but on good one

Node Type Hybrid

and no mention of NetBIOS over Tcpip

 

Tried changing to static and explicity enabling Tcpip in advanced but it made no diff

 

regards

 

Simon

[Geoff]

Try this KB article

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310570

[mattx]

Bit of a silly question but is the browser service running on this thing ? And simple file sharing is un-checked ?

[SimpleSi]

Just back from the machine

 

I used

 

netsh interface ip reset c:\ip.txt followed by reboot

which fixed it :

 

found via googling netbios over tcpip disabled

 

Thanks for the help Geoff - I just needed someone to push me in the right direction

 

 

regards

 

Simon

 

PS its an old SP1 machine so its probably got some spyware thingy in there - not enough RAM to update it

[richard.thomas]

Apparently this is a 'common' XP problem. On my XP Laptop if i try to use a UNC to get to a share on a server I get "host could not be found", however I could ping it.

I ended up making an entry in the hosts file so I could use the UNC!