sharing on a network

[dabigmooish]

I have three computers hooked up in a wireless Network. One with win2k, one with ME, and one with XP. All the computers say they are on the network, however when I try to view the entire network I recieve a message saying:

Workgroup is not accesible
The list of servers for this workgroup is not available.

with workgroup being the name I choose for my workgroup (I know it's lazy but I don't care). I have file sharing enabled on all the computers. Anyone know what I have to do to enable me to access files over the network?

Quick Update: THe XP computer now shows all three computers as being part of the network, however the ME and the win2k computer show only themselves as belonging to the network.

[will2041]

Sounds like a browse master issue. I had the same problem, then one day it just worked. :confused: In the mean time, you can still access each computer, but it takes a little more effort. Go start - run then type \\computername and click OK. It should pop up with a window displaying all the shares. You could also use \\IPaddress. If that works fine, you could even create a shortcut to \\computername for easy access.

[dabigmooish]

if it were only that easy, I've tried those trics and low and behold it didn't work. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

[ceh383]

Have you actually shared files on any machine?
Can you PING each machine from every other machine?

It shouldn't be necessary, but you could install the NetBEUI protocol.

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you have made sure that NETBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled in TCP/IP advanced properties for all machines, I'd go with NETBEUI too. :)

[dabigmooish]

Thanks for the help problem turned out to be that the ME computer simply didn't have NetBEUI protocal installed. I installed that and it works now. Thanks for everyones help (I would never had thought of that untill you guys mentioned NetBEUI)