networkmadness
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Hi everyone and thank you for taking the time to read this,
I've been trying to (fruitlessly) figure out the problem with network that used to work fine and consisted of 1 XP and 1 Vista computer. After upgrading Vista to SP1 and XP to SP3, these problems started occurring:
1. From the Vista computer, I can ping the XP computer and access all the shared files and printers by using the IP address of the XP computer, but NOT its name.
In the network dialog window, clicking on the name of the XP computer gives the error message that "Windows sent a request to the DNS server and the server responded that the name was unknown."
2. I can also ping and access the Vista computer by IP from the XP computer, however none of its shared folders or printers appear in the "My Network Places" window. Furthermore, I cannot view the list of computers in my network by clicking on "View workgroup computers". The error message that comes up states that
"The list of servers for thsi workgroup in not currently available."
-- I added another XP computer to the network (but this one uses SP2), which can both see and access all the other computers by name. However, the other computers in the network can't access without typing in the IP address.
I would really appreciate any help you may have on this subject. Thank you.
I've been trying to (fruitlessly) figure out the problem with network that used to work fine and consisted of 1 XP and 1 Vista computer. After upgrading Vista to SP1 and XP to SP3, these problems started occurring:
1. From the Vista computer, I can ping the XP computer and access all the shared files and printers by using the IP address of the XP computer, but NOT its name.
In the network dialog window, clicking on the name of the XP computer gives the error message that "Windows sent a request to the DNS server and the server responded that the name was unknown."
2. I can also ping and access the Vista computer by IP from the XP computer, however none of its shared folders or printers appear in the "My Network Places" window. Furthermore, I cannot view the list of computers in my network by clicking on "View workgroup computers". The error message that comes up states that
"The list of servers for thsi workgroup in not currently available."
-- I added another XP computer to the network (but this one uses SP2), which can both see and access all the other computers by name. However, the other computers in the network can't access without typing in the IP address.
I would really appreciate any help you may have on this subject. Thank you.