Suddenly Losing Workgroup Access...

I wonder if anyone has any suggestions for solving this problem...

I've got a small home network of five XP machines, all in the same
workgroup, all accessing the Internet through a Netgear router that
provides them with DHCP. I use an older PC as a server, and have a
printer hanging off it that I use from the other machines.

My Dell laptop was working fine, could see the server and could print on
the shared printer. I take it with me to work at a client's for the day;
it was working completely stand-alone, but when I brought it home again
and plugged into the home network, I now have no access to the server.

I can see the Internet; I can ping the server; and I can see the server
listed in the workgroup in Explorer. What I can't do is access the
machine, and all I get is the "Server is not accessible. You may not
have permission to access this resource..."

Any suggestions will be gratefully received!

julian
in London

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:11:38 +0000, Julian Templeman
<julian@templeman-consulting.co.uk> wrote:

>I wonder if anyone has any suggestions for solving this problem...
>
>I've got a small home network of five XP machines, all in the same
>workgroup, all accessing the Internet through a Netgear router that
>provides them with DHCP. I use an older PC as a server, and have a
>printer hanging off it that I use from the other machines.
>
>My Dell laptop was working fine, could see the server and could print on
>the shared printer. I take it with me to work at a client's for the day;
>it was working completely stand-alone, but when I brought it home again
>and plugged into the home network, I now have no access to the server.
>
>I can see the Internet; I can ping the server; and I can see the server
>listed in the workgroup in Explorer. What I can't do is access the
>machine, and all I get is the "Server is not accessible. You may not
>have permission to access this resource..."
>
>Any suggestions will be gratefully received!
>
>julian
>in London

Julian,

Your symptoms point to a browser problem picked up from having your laptop
connected to your client's LAN.

Please provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each computer, as a
start. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow instructions
precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.