Hello,

I just got a new HP 7160n station with MCE 2005 preinstalled by HP

- Workgroup was created on my MCE 2005,
- My other 2 PC's running on XP Pro & XP home edition have no problems
seeing and accessing shared drives/files between each other
- However the media center PC cant be seen on the workgroup and cant access
shared drives/files on the 2 other PC's. The error message I get is:
`workgroup not available, might not have permissions to access[..],list of
servers unavailable[..]`

any clues ?

thanks,

baz


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out of the box MCE 2005 woes

Windows Firewall

Probably not setup to allow file/printer sharing.

Or, different Workgroup name

Or
"baz" <v.lanaris@videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:8244A90E-18D6-4A96-8F79-6DDB9AD3ECC9@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I just got a new HP 7160n station with MCE 2005 preinstalled by HP
>
> - Workgroup was created on my MCE 2005,
> - My other 2 PC's running on XP Pro & XP home edition have no problems
> seeing and accessing shared drives/files between each other
> - However the media center PC cant be seen on the workgroup and cant
> access
> shared drives/files on the 2 other PC's. The error message I get is:
> `workgroup not available, might not have permissions to access[..],list of
> servers unavailable[..]`
>
> any clues ?
>
> thanks,
>
> baz
>
>
> --
> out of the box MCE 2005 woes

Hello,

As Tom said, make sure all machines are part of the same Workgroup and that
the file & printer sharing is allowed through the firewall. You might want
to temporarily disable the firewall to see if this is what was causing it.

Also, make sure each account has a password. XP will limit file sharing if
your accounts don't have passwords.

"Tom Scales" wrote:

> Windows Firewall
>
> Probably not setup to allow file/printer sharing.
>
> Or, different Workgroup name
>
> Or
> "baz" <v.lanaris@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> news:8244A90E-18D6-4A96-8F79-6DDB9AD3ECC9@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just got a new HP 7160n station with MCE 2005 preinstalled by HP
> >
> > - Workgroup was created on my MCE 2005,
> > - My other 2 PC's running on XP Pro & XP home edition have no problems
> > seeing and accessing shared drives/files between each other
> > - However the media center PC cant be seen on the workgroup and cant
> > access
> > shared drives/files on the 2 other PC's. The error message I get is:
> > `workgroup not available, might not have permissions to access[..],list of
> > servers unavailable[..]`
> >
> > any clues ?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > baz
> >
> >
> > --
> > out of the box MCE 2005 woes
>
>
>

Allowing for file sharing in the windows firewall settings did the trick !

thanks guys!

cheers

baz

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out of the box MCE 2005 woes


"Techdango" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As Tom said, make sure all machines are part of the same Workgroup and that
> the file & printer sharing is allowed through the firewall. You might want
> to temporarily disable the firewall to see if this is what was causing it.
>
> Also, make sure each account has a password. XP will limit file sharing if
> your accounts don't have passwords.
>
> "Tom Scales" wrote:
>
> > Windows Firewall
> >
> > Probably not setup to allow file/printer sharing.
> >
> > Or, different Workgroup name
> >
> > Or
> > "baz" <v.lanaris@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> > news:8244A90E-18D6-4A96-8F79-6DDB9AD3ECC9@microsoft.com...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just got a new HP 7160n station with MCE 2005 preinstalled by HP
> > >
> > > - Workgroup was created on my MCE 2005,
> > > - My other 2 PC's running on XP Pro & XP home edition have no problems
> > > seeing and accessing shared drives/files between each other
> > > - However the media center PC cant be seen on the workgroup and cant
> > > access
> > > shared drives/files on the 2 other PC's. The error message I get is:
> > > `workgroup not available, might not have permissions to access[..],list of
> > > servers unavailable[..]`
> > >
> > > any clues ?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > baz
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > out of the box MCE 2005 woes
> >
> >
> >