I have a Windows XP machine that needs to access other Windows machine on a network. If I have a machine named "Fred" that has an IP address of 192.168.1.110, I should be able to access it by using "\\FRED", but that stopped working. If I try that, I get "Windows cannot find \\FRED". If I access it as "\\192.168.1.110", it works fine.
Obviously the Windows name server (master browser) doesn't have its act together. What's the best way to fix this?
2007-07-12 12:04:42 · 3 answers · asked by HBrown 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Fred is actually set to DHCP and gets its address and DNS server info from a home router. A similar machine on the network is Ethel, and that machine is set to a static IP address and has static DNS entries. The default gateway is the router address and on this network, is 192.168.1.1
It's not a problem accessing internet machines. It's only a problem accessing other NetBIOS Windows machines on the same local network.
2007-07-12 12:49:57 · update #1
From a command prompt, run 'ipconfig -all'. The 'Node Type' in the IP configuration probably needs to say 'Mixed'. If it says 'Peer-peer', that's likely your problem.
From the Start menu, select 'Run' and enter 'regedit'.
CAREFULLY navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Services\ NetBT\ Parameters'. In the right-hand panel, look for 'DhcpNodeType'. Right click on this and modify the value to say '4'. Close regedit and restart.
Try the ipconfig again. It should say 'Mixed' and things should work better.
2007-07-12 13:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by LW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would help if you provided a little more info on the network
Apparently Fred has a static IP address. What is the default gateway? Do you have a router? Is the router the default gateway? Did you configure Fred to have a default gateway IP of the router?
What is acting as the DNS? Is it the router? Usually that is the case.
Unless you need specific pcs to have static IP, give them dynamic IP addresses and let the router hand out IP addresses and provide DNS.
If you need static IP or do not have a router or other DHCP server, you have to assign static IP addresses and assign 1 pc as default gateway.
Please provide more info
2007-07-12 12:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by GTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you checked your workgroup name on all of the machines? They need to be in the same workgroup.
Good Luck
2007-07-12 13:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by Ernie B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋