Comments on: The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:17:14 +0000

I am having the same issue. I have a number of computers on the network.
2 XP, 2 Linux, HP-UX and, when turned on, a laptop (Windows 7 or Linux)
and a netbook and an HP “PhotoSmart” with the last three being wireless and
the others wired LAN through a hub. The router is contained within the
DSL modem.

For some time things were working O.K. I could “see” the other computers
from any other computer. Then things abruptly changed and no longer
work. I can ping between any of the computers. I changed the DhcpNodeType on
one XP computer, re-booted it and one Linux desktop with no apparent change.
One additional point: the Linux desktops, HP-UX unix and HP printer use
static addresses. The rest are DHCP.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike Stansberry

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:33:22 +0000

Wow. Have no idea how it changed to a “2″. Set to “1″. Great! Thanks much!

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:32:16 +0000

How do you enable that again.. dont seem to be able to find “system sharing” to enable that again..

By: Merlin

Merlin — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:22 +0000

Cool – and thanks for sharing. There are quite a few that find this post and it can surely help somebody.
Merlin

By: Pc Tricks and Tips

Pc Tricks and Tips — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:47:29 +0000

Hi Merlin, i think i’ve figured mine, it was eset antivirus that disable system sharing, so i’ve re-enabled it.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:27:16 +0000

Hi Mike, don’t we hate those ‘sometimes’-problems?
Guest account was on the server.
I just had another annoying problem. Replaced on HP printer with a newer, better, bigger one. The old one was shared and I could print from other machines no problem. The new one showed up as shared but when the other machine tried to print, everything appeared to work but nothing came out of the printer. Long sessions with HP – nothing. Then the second computer was replaced by a Mac (!) and that one has no problems printing to that printer – funny, eh?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:38:13 +0000

Just made some headway on the issue but am still totallay baffled as to why.

I just cured the problem by disabling the second NIC….??????

It is too late in the day to try to figure this one out. I will work on it more tomorrow.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:05:57 +0000

Hey Merlin, Worked for me on one of my Networks. But on anotherone no dice.

Was the disabled guest account on the workstations or on the server?

I am running a domain controller and this has been going on for over two years. Sometimes it is working but most of the time it is not.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:25:24 +0000

One other cause for this I noticed is a disabled guest account.

By: ather1232002

ather1232002 — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:57:46 +0000

I have a problem, I run a network of 10 PCs with windows XP. I have turned of my firewall. They can ping each other, they can access each other by using run. e.g: \\192.168.0.10 or \\computername. but no computer shows in my network places. and some time shows this error
“workgroup is not accessible. you might not have permission to use ths network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.
Any one tell me the solution….