I just picked up a new HP laptop (got a bargain on it, too), and everything's working great on it EXCEPT its integration into my home network. My network consists of three Windows machines of various vintages and two linux machines, both running reasonably recent Samba servers.
This new laptop will happily bring up a network share, either Windows or Samba, provided I know its name. Additionally, the new machine and its shares show up in a Win98 machine's Network Neighborhood just fine.
The problem comes when I try to browse the workgroup from the new laptop (by hitting "View workgroup computers" inside "My Network Places"). I get the following error:
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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 account is not authorized to log in from this station.
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As a (I believe related) point, "Add Printer" won't add a network printer even when I
know I'm typing its name correctly.
I'm running XP Home SP2. This error was happening even before I installed SP2 this morning.
I've been all over Microsoft's knowlege base and the Internet at large about this one. So far I've made sure I'm in the same workgroup, I've futzed with my TCP/IP, NetBIOS. I've made sure that the new Windows Firewall isn't blocking file/print sharing. I've modified my WinXP account to use a password. I've set up another Windows machine to enable Browse Master. None of these things have helped at all.
What suggestions have you, Win Networking Geeks??