cant see computer

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Jeff

I have a W2K workstation that can access the network,
internet, printers, etc. without a problem. But I can not
see the computer in My network places, nor can I access
the machine remotely from the server or my workstation.
I'm not sure whats goin on. I could really use some
help. If anyone has any ideas that would be great.

Thanks
 
Is the server and/or workstation on a different domain or
workgroup?

Do you have file sharing enabled on the workstation
machine?

Can you ping the server from the workstation and the
workstation from the server? (using the computer name
first and then the ip address)

Have you tried to access your workstation via:

\\workstationname

In either I.E. or my network places (type in the address
bar).

Those are the only things I can think of right now.
 
While you are working within a small network, your gonna
need to have their Class C ips the same and same subnet.
its typical that the subnet would be 255.255.255.0
if the IP's you have on your systems that are on the
network and talking are for example
192.168.0.5 & 192.168.0.140
and the computers ip thats not talking to your network
properly has an ip of like 168.x.x.x or whatever, its not
gonna work.
If you dont have a DHCP server running, manually set the
computer thats not talking on the network to 192.168.0.x
x being something thats not already in use on your network.

you can do this by going to properties of your network
device and going to properties of the TCP/IP

if you can ping the other computers on the network you
should be good.

Hope this helps,
-craig
 
Thanks guys, it all works now.

-----Original Message-----
While you are working within a small network, your gonna
need to have their Class C ips the same and same subnet.
its typical that the subnet would be 255.255.255.0
if the IP's you have on your systems that are on the
network and talking are for example
192.168.0.5 & 192.168.0.140
and the computers ip thats not talking to your network
properly has an ip of like 168.x.x.x or whatever, its not
gonna work.
If you dont have a DHCP server running, manually set the
computer thats not talking on the network to 192.168.0.x
x being something thats not already in use on your network.

you can do this by going to properties of your network
device and going to properties of the TCP/IP

if you can ping the other computers on the network you
should be good.

Hope this helps,
-craig
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