Problem with networked Win XP Professional clients

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Bruce Schek

I run a small office LAN. There is a Windows 2000 Server
acting as file server, firewall (via DSL line), and
domain controller. There are four Win XP Professional
clients within the internal LAN.

Suddenly today, one of the clients shows a serious
networking problem that I've not been able to debug. It
can access the internet and access shared files on other
computers. But the other computers no longer "see" this
computer on the network. If I try to access a file on
this computer from another client, I get this
error/dialog box: "\\Dell8100 is not accessible. You
might not have permisssion to use this network resource.
Contact the admin of this server to find out if you have
access persmissions. The network path was not found."

How can I debug this? All help will be much appreciated.

Cheers, Bruce
 
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.... is not accessible

Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Network path was not found."

Resolutions:
1) make sure no any firewall running.
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.
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