Anilrgowda

I have a Windows 2003 Server configured as the domain controller and DNS server. I have two other machines, one is XP Pro and the other is XP Media Edition. Up until a day ago, I had been running a domain with the 2 machines running perfectly fine on the network. All of a sudden, yesterday I went to access a share on the server on my XP machine and got an error that it could not find the machine. In fact I can't even see the domain when I try to browse the entire network. I checked all kinds of things and eventually I even re-installed the domain/dns.

On my laptop, everything works fine. I can see the domain, I am able to remove and join the domain fine. Everything resolves fine. Even after I re-installed the domain. So for now, it doesn't look like the problem is on the server.

On my XP Pro machine, I can ping the machine either by IP or by the complete name (server.domain.com). NSLOOKUP is resolving without problems. I do not see the domain at all when I browse the entire neighborhood. The only error I see in the event log is that the Computer Browser service has stopped due to a timeout. When I try to join the domain, again I use the complete domain name. I am able to get up to the username/prompt without an error. But once I enter the username and password it comes back with the following error.

"The network location cannot be reached."

My hardware has not changed. I did not touch the server configuration prior to the problem I'm experiencing. I just applied Service Pack 2 on the server, but that didn't fix anything. So really, the only changes I've made have simply been the security patches.

Anilrgowda

From the Run prompt run regedt32

Browse to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters.

If you see a key named SMBDeviceEnabled delete it.
Then manually add / change "TrasportBIndNAme" and change parameters to: \Device\

It's worked before, and will work again. Give it a go. Also if that's unsuccessful, you could try a basic Winsock fix. But try above first.