On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:29:01 -0800, "brandon_r87"
<brandonr87@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

<I am able to ping between computers, and all computers are in MSHOME, but I
<suspect that the Gateway is making its own MSHOME instead of joining the
<other computers' MSHOME workgroup.

I thought it was going to be one of those 8-(.

I can think of one more command that may help you troubleshoot. From a dos
box(start>run cmd<enter>) type net view<enter> to get the names of the computers
in the workgroup and then try each one specically e.g. net show \\gateway<enter>
to see what resources are being shared. You'll be able to see the shares of your
local as well as the other boxes. The new machine may not yet have shares,
perhaps there are problems with permissions and/or sharing. You can check those
values by right clicking the shared resource from within the windows explorer
interface, and selecting the sharing or security tabs.

Finally, the problem may be in the "guest" user account. Maybe the user name of
the gateway isn't recognized by the older machines because the guest account
isn't enabled(I'm not recommending this, I think you should have the same
password protected account on each individual machine) We can't know from here
how you've set up your user accounts on the various machines, but if you can
ping and all machines are in the same workgroup, then it's likely that there are
issues in the user accounts that are preventing the new box from sharing.

<I was also able to access my files from the Compaq while on my Gateway
<temporarily, but not the Dell. This was a complete mystery to me. It stopped
<working so I can't give you any information on how the network was working
<when it was going. I usually have my Compaq off too because it slows down
<the internet on the Gateway when on (it is on the 2nd floor between the Dell
<(3rd) and Gateway (1st) so I think it takes some of Gateway's signal when on).