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Name: JCoster
Date: April 12, 2007 at 08:03:46 Pacific
OS: Win2000
CPU/Ram: Compaq
Product: HP
Comment:

Hi. I have a win2000 notebook which connects to the internet and network wirelessly over a netgear PCMCIA adaptor.

However, it cannot connect to other computers (Start > Run > '\\COMPUTERNAME' results in error: 'Network is not present or is not started').

I cannot think why this is. Also, when adding printers I do not have the option to add network printers- only local ones.

I think that this is probably related.

Any ideas?

Thanks.



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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: April 12, 2007 at 16:02:15 Pacific
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what does your network admin have to say about it when you talk to them?

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Response Number 2
Name: JCoster
Date: April 12, 2007 at 16:11:18 Pacific
Reply:

Err... I am my network admin...


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: April 12, 2007 at 19:26:59 Pacific
Reply:

You're connecting wirelessly. Are the other computers also connected to this same wireless network?

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Response Number 4
Name: wanderer
Date: April 13, 2007 at 11:39:57 Pacific
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Sounds to me like you don't have DNS properly configured. Look at your workstation dns entries. Are they pointing to your Microsoft DNS server or to the ISP's DNS servers?

It should be pointing to your Microsoft DNS server as should all the other workstations.

It works like this: your isp dns server can not be updated by your clients. if you point to the isp's dns you can never resolve local host names because it doesn't know about them. This is why you point to your local MS DNS which CAN be updated by your clients. It in turn, since you put the isps dns servers in the Forwarders Tab, would refer a request for say Google to the isps dns since it could not resolve it locally.

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Response Number 5
Name: intri
Date: April 28, 2007 at 22:21:45 Pacific
Reply:

JCoster

I had the same problem on several of my work pc's. Heres what I did to fix it.

1. log in as admin
2. Start and set to automatic the following services under administrative tools. TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, Workstation, and Server

Let me know if this works for you. I would love to punch wanderer in the face for making such a usless comment.



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Response Number 6
Name: hoffman
Date: May 8, 2007 at 11:50:37 Pacific
Reply:

I had a similar situation. I started the Workstation service and then everything was OK with trying to find a machine on the network via \\machinename


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