Error 6118

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 18:14

Anyone know the answer to this one!

After months of faultless WIFI, today for some unknown reason none of my PCs can see any other one.

When I do a netview, I get Error message 6118.

All PCs are XP SP2, the network is 802.11g. SOme of them are using Zone Alarm some are not. ZA has not been a problem usually. They all see the internet OK.

Here is an attachment showing the outcome of a net view.

Druchii · 29-10-2006, 18:24

Did zonealarm update today?

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 18:26

Tis not your hardware looks more network netbios issue :

Check you've not turned netbios off or that the firewalls are stopping NETBIOS.
nbtstat /? may be friend also for debugging

snip

6118
System error 6118 has occurred.

The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available

Covers a multitude of sins. Could be literany anmything from incorrect WINS settings, the network cable not being plugged in, incorrect firewall configuration, or NetBIOS turned off on the adapter

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 18:34

Hello ZA updated on 1 PC yesterday I think. However I've disable ZA on this PC and there is still a problem.......

Also.....I've not fiddled with any settings

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 18:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by meld51

Hello ZA updated on 1 PC yesterday I think. However I've disable ZA on this PC and there is still a problem.......

Disable all the ZA's it can take upto 15 minutes for the netbios cache to proliferate

can you still access the machines without using their netbios names

ie

\\ipaddress\c$
\\ipaddress\sharename etc

eg

\\192.168.0.10\c$

All executed from the start > run prompt

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 19:04

I can't ping the machines.....if that's what you mean

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 19:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by meld51

I can't ping the machines.....if that's what you mean

What even with all the firewalls turned off and just using the ip address ?

eg from a command prompt

ping 192.168.0.3

please also check that you are pinging the right address

find your ipaddress by using

ipconfig (within the command prompt)

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 20:54

All the firewalls are off now (except the router....I assume I'm safe behind that.
I do net view and I can see one other PC. There are 2 others out there somewhere!

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BTW, what are Zone Alarm updates all about. Are they necessary or are they (as I suspect) just a way of keeping it in your frontal lobes and irritating you into buying the paid-for version?

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 20:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by meld51

All the firewalls are off now (except the router....I assume I'm safe behind that.
I do net view and I can see one other PC. There are 2 others out there somewhere!

---------- Post added at 20:54 ---------- Previous post was at 20:50 ----------

BTW, what are Zone Alarm updates all about. Are they necessary or are they (as I suspect) just a way of keeping it in your frontal lobes and irritating you into buying the paid-for version?

have you tried running

ipconfig /all

on all the pcs to check that their ips are correct ?

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 21:08

here goes on IP config..... I'll just run along and try it on one PC

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Oooooh progress.
When I did that, I found that the other 2 PCs can see each other....revealed by netview.

It seems we have a a lovey dovey network now. Two couples! I think one pair is on mshome the other pair is on workgroups.

Could this be the issue? What do you call these parts of the network? Can I just drag and drop them into 'workgroups' or something. Might it be as simple as that?

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 21:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by meld51

here goes on IP config..... I'll just run along and try it on one PC

---------- Post added at 21:08 ---------- Previous post was at 21:02 ----------

Oooooh progress.
When I did that, I found that the other 2 PCs can see each other....revealed by netview.

It seems we have a a lovey dovey network now. Two couples! I think one pair is on mshome the other pair is on workgroups.

Could this be the issue? What do you call these parts of the network? Can I just drag and drop them into 'workgroups' or something. Might it be as simple as that?

No just put them all on the same workgroup

my computer > properties > network name id : make sure all machines are in the same workgroup reboot

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 21:25

my computer > properties > network name id : make sure all machines are in the same workgroup reboot

don't seem to have that in my properties..................OK found it......I'll try

meld51 · 29-10-2006, 21:34

Before I do that...look at this.....all 4 pcs seem to be on view again. I didn't do anything to make this happen.....

but netview still only sees 2 of them

I would have thought that they would have to be visible to netview to show up in windows explorer

The Jackal · 29-10-2006, 22:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by meld51

Before I do that...look at this.....all 4 pcs seem to be on view again. I didn't do anything to make this happen.....

but netview still only sees 2 of them

I would have thought that they would have to be visible to netview to show up in windows explorer

Consider looking at it as 2 seperate netbios networks mshome and workgroup....

Just slap them all into one job done.

meld51 · 30-10-2006, 18:46

OK,
Shifting workgroups seems to do the trick.

Just so I know, is there a way of making workgroups see one another anyway?

Thanks folks