You might not have permission to use this network resource error

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jesse
  • Start date Start date
J

Jesse

I'm using Windows XP SP1. I run my laptop on a workgroup at our
office. I connected to another internet connection at a client's site
to get online. Upon returning to the office, I can no longer see our
local machines.

I have searched several postings.

Some things I've verified are.

1) No firewall is running
2) Netbios is enabled over TCP/IP
3) Computer Service is running
4) I can ping the IP of other machines and vice versa, but not
computer names

This is driving me nuts not being able to get on our network, any help
is appreciated.

Jesse
 
Greetings Jesse,

Are all machine running XP? If not, make sure all machines have the same
workgroup name. Default is MSHOME in Windows XP and they also must have a
common subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. If the subnet mask is different, they
are on different networks.

__________________
Eric
 
"Eric Cross" said:
Greetings Jesse,

Are all machine running XP? If not, make sure all machines have the same
workgroup name. Default is MSHOME in Windows XP and they also must have a
common subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. If the subnet mask is different, they
are on different networks.
Click to expand...

Those are good suggestions, Eric, and they're likely to make
networking a little easier. However, neither of them is necessary,
and neither of them guarantees that the network will work, because:

1. Windows networking supports multiple workgroups. A computer in any
workgroup can access a computer in any other workgroup.

2. It isn't possible to say what the subnet mask should be without
knowing the IP addresses of the computers on the network. For
example, the conventional subnet mask for the 10.0.0.0 private IP
address range is 255.0.0.0. It's even possible to network computers
using different subnet masks with certain IP addresses.

Jesse, given that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled (not default), I
suspect that this will help:

1. Run "ipconfig /all" on each computer and look at the "Node Type" at
the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

2. If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

3. If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a
DWORD value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4
for "Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
 
You may still be holding the IP address from your client
site... open a command window and enter "ipconfig"
This shows the current IP address being used, you can
release and renew the address onm you office network to
get a new IP from your network
 
Back
Top