Hello,

I've been trying to get my network to function on and off for the last
month, and no matter what I've tried, I haven't had any luck in being able to
access one from the other. So I'm hoping someone will be able to help me.

I have two computers, one running Windows 98, and the other running Windows
2000. I am fairly sure there is no problem with the physical connection, and
while both computers have firewalls, I've set up an advanced rule set so that
they'll be able to access each other, and are able to successfully ping each
other.

On the Win98 machine, the computer is only able to see itself in Network
Neighbourhood. On Win2k, when I try to access Computers Near Me I get the
following error message:

[quote]Workgroup is not accessible.

The list of servers for this workgroup is currently not available.[/quote]

Using the net view command or trying to make a shortcut to the Win98 machine
results in system error 53 (the network path was not found.) If I try to ping
the computer name, I get told it's an "unknown host". I've followed the
information from article 285035, but it hasn't helped.

I'm using the TCP/IP protocol, with NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled. Both
computers are on the same workgroup, and have different computer names. Both
computers have identical usernames/passwords. The Computer Browser service in
Win2k is enabled, and the Master Brower setting in Win98 is set to automatic
with LM Announce set to yes. Node type is set to broadcast.

One of the only possible explanations I can think of is that the computers
have different IPs (one is 24.81.xxx.xxx, and the other is 24.82.x.xxx), and
that this is causing the problem. However, I've tried forcing private IPs
(192.168.250.1 and 192.168.250.2), but that did not remedy the situation. The
only other problem I might have is something misconfigured with the browser,
but I'm not sure what, or how to fix the problem. Any help on the issue would
be appreciated.