<slink>  Personal firewall issue it was.  I hate it when a band of
gypsies rides in and installs a personal firewall and forgets to
configure it properly.  Crap.  <\slink>


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 2:03 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: XP networking hosed


Perhaps it is a local security policy that changed with the advent of XP
Service pack? Maybe access this computer from the network policy got
modified? Just thinking out loud.



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:43 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: XP networking hosed

The name of the workgroup wasn't WORKGROUP, was actually GRESHAM - just
seemed easier to talk about it, I suppose, not to mention it's the
default.  Maybe one should do that for security - call your domain
WORKGROUP and your workgroup DOMAIN - there's your security by
obscurity...

Anyway, got any ideas?  I've double-checked all IP settings, the
workgroup name, made sure the browser service was running, even slapped
NetBEUI on the XP machines, no difference.  Sometimes one can ping the
server, and the XP WS even shows up in the server's browser - but it
can't connect, asks for an authorized logon & password, kinda like when
you're connected but not really authenticated to a domain.  I have a
distinct impression that SP1 broke/added some widget on the XP boxen,
maybe security related.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:35 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: XP networking hosed


Not sure of the answer, but there is one thing that always puzzles me...
Why do people call their workgroups, WORKGROUP? In all my years of IT I
have never seen a domain called DOMAIN, why workgroup WORKGROUP? 

Maybe it is just me.

Idea,

What if you change the name of the workgroup on 2 computers? Will they
see each other then? Or do you get the same error?

Ed

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 2:32 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: XP networking hosed

XP Pro workstations and a W2K server in a remote workgroup -- after
applying SP1 and a couple of other recent hotfixes, the ability of the
XP machines to interoperate in a workgroup seems to have gone south. The
error is "The workgroup WORKGROUP is not available..."  I'm still
researching and testing, but wondering whether anyone might of run into
this...

David

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