My Computer won't Join my Workgroup

I bought 5 Dell Computers and started installing them.
The 1st one went great. When I got to the 2nd one and
tried to transfer files, it told me that "the workgroup
is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the administratior of this
service to find out if you have access permissions.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
available."

I don't know if I put a weron setting when I was
installing the computer or what. The point is that my
computer cannot read the network.

Any ideas?

On Tue, 4 May 2004 07:10:39 -0700, "art" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I bought 5 Dell Computers and started installing them.
>The 1st one went great. When I got to the 2nd one and
>tried to transfer files, it told me that "the workgroup
>is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
>this network resource. Contact the administratior of this
>service to find out if you have access permissions.
>The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
>available."
>
>I don't know if I put a weron setting when I was
>installing the computer or what. The point is that my
>computer cannot read the network.
>
>Any ideas?

Art,

Are you running XP Home or Pro?

If XP Pro, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel - Folder Options -
View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With XP Pro, you need to have
the SFS settings the same on each computer.

If SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy (Control Panel -
Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security Options, look at
"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure it's set to "Classic -
local users authenticate as themselves".

If you set the Local Security Policy to "Guest only", make sure that the Guest
account is enabled, and has an identical, non-blank, password on all computers.
If "Classic", setup and use a common account with identical, non-blank, password
on all computers.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)? If so,
you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and
UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in the
Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

>-----Original Message-----
>On Tue, 4 May 2004 07:10:39 -0700, "art"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I bought 5 Dell Computers and started installing them.
>>The 1st one went great. When I got to the 2nd one and
>>tried to transfer files, it told me that "the workgroup
>>is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
>>this network resource. Contact the administratior of
this
>>service to find out if you have access permissions.
>>The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
>>available."
>>
>>I don't know if I put a weron setting when I was
>>installing the computer or what. The point is that my
>>computer cannot read the network.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>Art,
>
>Are you running XP Home or Pro?
>
>If XP Pro, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control
Panel - Folder Options -
>View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With
XP Pro, you need to have
>the SFS settings the same on each computer.
>
>If SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy
(Control Panel -
>Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security
Options, look at
>"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure
it's set to "Classic -
>local users authenticate as themselves".
>
>If you set the Local Security Policy to "Guest only",
make sure that the Guest
>account is enabled, and has an identical, non-blank,
password on all computers.
>If "Classic", setup and use a common account with
identical, non-blank, password
>on all computers.
>
>Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or
third party)? If so,
>you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening
ports TCP 139, 445 and
>UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other
computers as present in the
>Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a
very common cause of
>(network) browser problems.
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
>Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily
a bad thing.
>.
>Chuck,

I have XP Home (Dell didn't change it in time). When I
tried to transfer the files from the old computer to the
new one, it told me "workgroup is not accessible. You
might not have permission to use this network resource.
Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. The list of servers for this
workgroup is not currently available."

Every time I hit My Network Places it is blank, although
I can see the computer in the rest of the network.

Any ideas?

Thanks a bunch,

Art

On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:07:55 -0700, "Art Solano"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

<SNIP>

>>Chuck,
>
>I have XP Home (Dell didn't change it in time). When I
>tried to transfer the files from the old computer to the
>new one, it told me "workgroup is not accessible. You
>might not have permission to use this network resource.
>Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
>you have access permissions. The list of servers for this
>workgroup is not currently available."
>
>Every time I hit My Network Places it is blank, although
>I can see the computer in the rest of the network.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>
>Art

Art,

Is the Guest account enabled, with an identical, non-blank password, on each
computer?

Do you have any software firewall (ICF or third party) on any computer?

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.