robbie1876

Well, I found the problem and now I feel like a fool! It was only when you mentioned in your last post to double check the firewall is off that I discovered the problem. I had checked that Windows Firewall is definitely off and made sure that my Avast firewall was shut down during these tests too. But your post prompted me to have a look at other running processes and guess what I found hiding in the background? ZoneAlarm! Shutting it down fixed the problem immediately, I'm now happily browsing my unraid again. Sorry for wasting your time on this and thanks for the help, I certainly learned something! And I've no idea how ZoneAlarm suddenly started stealthily running again, probably 2 years after I uninstalled it. Ah the fun of it all. Thanks again, and Happy Christmas! Robbie

Yes, they appear to be - here's the ipconfig from the XP machine: Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.103 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1 and from the the unraid system: root@Tower:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:66:07:d9:ae inet addr:192.168.2.107 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:78898 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:9908948 (9.4 MiB) TX bytes:60044005 (57.2 MiB) Interrupt:218 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4676 (4.5 KiB) TX bytes:4676 (4.5 KiB)

Thanks for the reply. I've tried all of your suggestions and unfortunately still no joy! - I can indeed browse to other network shares from the XP box without any problems - The three services you mentioned are all saying 'Started' as their status - The network card has four items installed and enabled: - Client for Microsoft Windows - File and Printer sharing for Microsoft Windows - QoS Packet Scheduler - Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) - TCP/IP is set to Obtain IP and DNS automatically, and under Advanced settings: - IP Address: DHCP enabled; Automatic metric ticked - DNS: Append primary DNS suffixes ticked; Append parent suffixes ticked; Register this connection's addresses ticked; Use this connection's DNS not ticked - WINS: Enable LMHOSTS Lookup ticked; NetBIOS Setting Default - Options: TCP/IP filtering, Properties all set to 'Permit All' - The direct mapping returned 'The network path was not found' on a couple of different shares and different drive names Thanks again for your help, any other suggestions you can think of for me to try? Robbie

Hi, thanks for the replies. graywolf, that's a fair question and I should have mentioned in my first post that the workgroup is indeed the same on all devices attached. Spectrum, thanks for the tips. I followed through on the instructions you posted but alas I still cannot browse to \\tower\ using Explorer on the XP box. ping tower works fine, as you'll see in the notes I posted below from the cmd prompt. It's just browsing the filesystem is the problem, and only from this XP PC. I've attached the hosts.txt file as requested. Any other tips to try would be most welcome. Robbie C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>nbtstat -a tower Hamachi: Node IpAddress: [5.115.121.136] Scope Id: [] Host not found. Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.2.103] Scope Id: [] Host not found. C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>nbtstat -r NetBIOS Names Resolution and Registration Statistics ---------------------------------------------------- Resolved By Broadcast = 1 Resolved By Name Server = 0 Registered By Broadcast = 10 Registered By Name Server = 0 NetBIOS Names Resolved By Broadcast --------------------------------------------- BRN008077D16CEF<00> C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>nbtstat -RR The NetBIOS names registered by this computer have been refreshed. C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>ipconfig /flushdns Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache. C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>nbtstat -r NetBIOS Names Resolution and Registration Statistics ---------------------------------------------------- Resolved By Broadcast = 1 Resolved By Name Server = 0 Registered By Broadcast = 10 Registered By Name Server = 0 NetBIOS Names Resolved By Broadcast --------------------------------------------- BRN008077D16CEF<00> C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie>ping tower Pinging tower [192.168.2.107] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.2.107: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.2.107: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.2.107: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.2.107: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.2.107: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Documents and Settings\Robbie> hosts.txt

My little network consists of a couple of Win7 PCs, a Mac and an XP system. Recently the XP PC has not been able to browse to \\tower and it's driving me nuts. Here are some things that I can confirm: - Every other PC / Mac can browse to \\tower no problem - I can get to the Unraid control panel via either //tower or the IP which is 192.168.0.107 - On the XP PC I have entered 192.168.2.107<TAB>tower in the hosts file - On the tower, net lookup master returns 192.168.2.107 which is correct - net lookup bpmmaster (the XP PC) returns 192.168.2.101 - which is also correct - On the XP PC nbtstat -a tower returns a Host not found error. - I've rebooted everything several times, switched off firewalls etc. I've also searched these forums a good bit and can't yet find the right answer for me. I'd really appreciate some pointers and some other stuff to try here. Many thanks, Robbie