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#1 By 459541 (98.116.47.18) at Friday, January 14, 2011 01:39:41 PM

So, I'm having a bit of an issue that appears to be affecting all the computers on my home network (XP pro x64 SP2, XP Home SP2, XP Home SP3, XP Pro SP3). Everything has been running fine for the past year or so that I've been in the home and then all of a sudden, within the past 2 days, this issue hit. I cannot connect directly to any of the shared folders on my network via the My Network Places folder. There are no longer any shared folders showing up there. I try to manually search the network for shared folders by opening Entire Network->Microsoft Windows Network (slower than normal here to find my workgroup, WORKGROUP)-> WORKGROUP. Once I try to open my workgroup, it waits for awhile and then I get the error: "Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this 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. ". Note that all my PCs are in this workgroup. Internet is working fine on all computers, and I can access any shared drives I've got mapped (or enter the network path into Run and open it up) and can ping other PCs on the network, so I don't think there's any issue with network adapters, and it's happening on 4 separate computers with different network adapters so it's hard to believe they all got corrupted somehow... The only thing I can think of is that I have automatic updates enabled and perhaps MS released an update that caused this issue. Has anyone seen/heard anything like this? Any ideas what could be causing this or how to resolve this? Any steps to try? This isn't a critical issue, as I mentioned I can still access shared folders, just need to map them or something, it's just frustrating that something which used to work find just stopped, all of a sudden, with no good reason, and everything I can think of that's related still seems to be fine... Thanks in advance!

#2 By 461179 (77.44.125.14) at Tuesday, January 18, 2011 08:53:13 AM

[QUOTE]Originally Posted by bob925: So, I'm having a bit of an issue that appears to be affecting all the computers on my home network (XP pro x64 SP2, XP Home SP2, XP Home SP3, XP Pro SP3). Everything has been running fine for the past year or so that I've been in the home and then all of a sudden, within the past 2 days, this issue hit. I cannot connect directly to any of the shared folders on my network via the My Network Places folder. There are no longer any shared folders showing up there. I try to manually search the network for shared folders by opening Entire Network->Microsoft Windows Network (slower than normal here to find my workgroup, WORKGROUP)-> WORKGROUP. Once I try to open my workgroup, it waits for awhile and then I get the error: "Workgroup is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this 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. ". Note that all my PCs are in this workgroup. Internet is working fine on all computers, and I can access any shared drives I've got mapped (or enter the network path into Run and open it up) and can ping other PCs on the network, so I don't think there's any issue with network adapters, and it's happening on 4 separate computers with different network adapters so it's hard to believe they all got corrupted somehow... The only thing I can think of is that I have automatic updates enabled and perhaps MS released an update that caused this issue. Has anyone seen/heard anything like this? Any ideas what could be causing this or how to resolve this? Any steps to try? This isn't a critical issue, as I mentioned I can still access shared folders, just need to map them or something, it's just frustrating that something which used to work find just stopped, all of a sudden, with no good reason, and everything I can think of that's related still seems to be fine... Thanks in advance! [/QUOTE] I have seen something similar on a peer to peer network. As XP can only accept 10 concurrent connections then it can cause access issues, but i would have expected you to have issues opening your mapped drives, so may just be a red herring. Have you checked the Windows event logs to see if it is logging an error.

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