For around 6 months i have had Win XP installed on my computer in a network with Win 98, Me, and 2000 computers. Everyone could see everyones files. However, despite not knowingly changing any settings, my Win XP computer will not recognise that a network is even there. It suggests i do not have permissions to access my server, or that the network is not present or started. Since i am the administrator on the computer, i know i have permission. All the other computers on the network still have file sharing abilities and can still connect to my shares. Anybody got any ideas as to how to get WinXP to recognise the network again? thanks in advance.

I am having the same problem. Puter came with XP & I upgraded to XP Pro. I have only had it about a month but it has been working fine, no network problems until yesterday. Automatic update notification let me know that there were upgrades available, so I went to the ms download site & got them. Since then, my system won't recognize the network & says I probably don't have permission, etc. I spent over an hour on the phone with ms tech support. We determined that it is not a hw problem. You can probably go to run, type in \\xxx (where xxx is the name of one of the other computers on your network) hit enter & the other will show up on your net. Kind of a pain in the butt to do to logon, but it works. It appears that MS screwed up with one of the updates (mine found 19 that it thought it needed). They weren't smart enough to catch it before the update release, and they haven't done anything about it yet. I'm not sure they even recognize that they have a problem.