NetBIOS not enabled

I have a laptop running XP Home edition that I was able to connect to a
desktop machine on my local wireless network last week. This week I cannot
connect or even see the other machine. I had network drives mapped
previously, but now I get an error that says the resource/machine could not
be located.

When I run ipconfig /all I see that NetBIOS is disabled, even though the
button "enable NetBIOS" is clicked in the WINS tab of the TCP/IP
configuration settings dialog. I suspect that this is the problem.

I have tried to get NetBIOS enabled on this machine every way I can think of
- including running a couple of the vbs scripts from the TechNet site that
checks\enables NetBIOS. What is happening? Why can't I get the NetBIOS
settings to take effect even though the option to enable them is checked?

I have SP2 installed with all of the latest hotfixes from Microsoft and HP
installed. The HP help desk was of no help at all. They kept saying that
because I couldn't ping myself using my IP address I have network connection
issues even though I was connected to them via the internet on the very
machine we were trying to fix. That is why I believe the problem lays
somewhere within the NetBIOS setting and its not being enabled at the
hardware level.

Thanks for your help.

--
Don Matthews

You may try to use netsh command to reset TCP/IP. This search result may
help,

netsh commandTo run a netsh command, you can start netsh from the Cmd.exe
prompt and change to the context that contains the command you want to use.
Or you can do netsh ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/netsh.htm


--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Don M." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E442E942-5494-4B83-94AD-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have a laptop running XP Home edition that I was able to connect to a
> desktop machine on my local wireless network last week. This week I
> cannot
> connect or even see the other machine. I had network drives mapped
> previously, but now I get an error that says the resource/machine could
> not
> be located.
>
> When I run ipconfig /all I see that NetBIOS is disabled, even though the
> button "enable NetBIOS" is clicked in the WINS tab of the TCP/IP
> configuration settings dialog. I suspect that this is the problem.
>
> I have tried to get NetBIOS enabled on this machine every way I can think
> of
> - including running a couple of the vbs scripts from the TechNet site that
> checks\enables NetBIOS. What is happening? Why can't I get the NetBIOS
> settings to take effect even though the option to enable them is checked?
>
> I have SP2 installed with all of the latest hotfixes from Microsoft and HP
> installed. The HP help desk was of no help at all. They kept saying that
> because I couldn't ping myself using my IP address I have network
> connection
> issues even though I was connected to them via the internet on the very
> machine we were trying to fix. That is why I believe the problem lays
> somewhere within the NetBIOS setting and its not being enabled at the
> hardware level.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> Don Matthews

MSNews:

Thanks for the tip. I tried it, but it didn't help. Although the option is
enabled in the Advanced settings it will not show as enabled when doing a
ipconfig /all command. I believe this is why I am unable to connect to a
machine I could connect to a couple of weeks ago. THAT machine has netbios
enabled on it and it shows as enabled in the ipconfig /all command.
--
Don Matthews


"MSNews" wrote:

> You may try to use netsh command to reset TCP/IP. This search result may
> help,
>
> netsh commandTo run a netsh command, you can start netsh from the Cmd.exe
> prompt and change to the context that contains the command you want to use.
> Or you can do netsh ...
> http://www.chicagotech.net/netsh.htm
>
>
> --
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
> http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
> http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Don M." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:E442E942-5494-4B83-94AD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have a laptop running XP Home edition that I was able to connect to a
> > desktop machine on my local wireless network last week. This week I
> > cannot
> > connect or even see the other machine. I had network drives mapped
> > previously, but now I get an error that says the resource/machine could
> > not
> > be located.
> >
> > When I run ipconfig /all I see that NetBIOS is disabled, even though the
> > button "enable NetBIOS" is clicked in the WINS tab of the TCP/IP
> > configuration settings dialog. I suspect that this is the problem.
> >
> > I have tried to get NetBIOS enabled on this machine every way I can think
> > of
> > - including running a couple of the vbs scripts from the TechNet site that
> > checks\enables NetBIOS. What is happening? Why can't I get the NetBIOS
> > settings to take effect even though the option to enable them is checked?
> >
> > I have SP2 installed with all of the latest hotfixes from Microsoft and HP
> > installed. The HP help desk was of no help at all. They kept saying that
> > because I couldn't ping myself using my IP address I have network
> > connection
> > issues even though I was connected to them via the internet on the very
> > machine we were trying to fix. That is why I believe the problem lays
> > somewhere within the NetBIOS setting and its not being enabled at the
> > hardware level.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > --
> > Don Matthews
>
>
>