Win xp sees only 5 PCs

[WildCrazyDude]

I have a LAN (peer to peer, with DHCP) of 30 PCs with only ONE Win xp and the rest in win 2000 or 98/95. Win xp sees only 5 computers in its network neighborhood, and the rest of PCs can see all including the win xp. I installed NETBeUI and activate Netbios over TCP/IP, guest account and file sharing in win xp, but this win xp can still see ONLY FIVE computers in its neighborhood !!!! Why ???? All the PCs is under the same workgroup, ex: mshome. Anyone knows why, and how to make this win xp see all the PCs in my peer to peer LAN (all connected to the same HUB with DHCP). Thanks.

PS: I do not want to join in a Domain-controlled server yet.

[classicsoftware]

Can it only see five specific pc's or does it see the first 5 pc's that boot up?

If the answer to the first part of the question is yes, I'd like to know about your wiring cabling.

If the answer is yes to the second part of my question, then there is a limit ot the number of machines you can log into at any one time. Now, where the setting is, I don't know.

Just from my experience with LANtastic, you can set the maximum number of logins for any one user. It may be in the user settings on the Windows XP computer. Have you tried creating a differnet user and see what happens?

[WildCrazyDude]

First, thanks for your reply to my question :-) This win xp pro. can see ONLY 5 computers in my P2P LAN randomly and not in any particular order !! I even tried to connect another new win xp Pro. to this same LAN, and the newly-connected win xp can see ONLY 5 computers including the existing win xp !!! Why ??? All 30 computers (win 2000, 98&95) are connected in STAR topology with three cascaded 10/100 HUBs going to a Cayman DSL modem-Router configured for DHCP.

[Ghost_Hacker]

First have you tried the old stand-by of using "\\computername" and then "\\ipaddress" to see if the XP box can access the others?


Also remember that "netbios over TCP/IP" is disabled by default in XP, so the Win 9x boxes might not showup in the 'hood till you change that setting.


Also check to see which computer in your LAN is the master browser and look at the event logs on the XP box for browser errors.

[WildCrazyDude]

As indicated on my first thread, yes, Netbios over TCP/IP was enabled, Guest = enabled, files sharing = enabled, Firewall = disabled. No warning in event log. My P2P LAN is currently set at its simplest stage for testing (no need for a Domain-controlled dedicated server at this time yet). Ping , map by name or IP was not replied by the UNSEEN computers on the network neighborhood. However, everything is working normally as expected for ONLY 5 SEEN computers on the neighborhood !! Looking into Microsoft site for answer and other sites, I could not find WHY yet !!!!! Thanks people for trying to help me out :-) No light at the end of my tunnel yet :-(

[Ghost_Hacker]

Ping , map by name or IP was not replied by the UNSEEN computers on the network neighborhood.


If you can't ping the unseen computers or get any mapping to work, then they won't show up in the 'hood no matter what you do. You need to check your basic connectivity first. (cables, IP information, hub and switches, collision domain, nic card, etc,etc....)

[WildCrazyDude]

Having been too busy lately, I could not reply earlier ! :-( Anyway, I found the problem. Nothing was changed in my LAN setup, except that I recheck the bindings from TCP to File and printer sharing again ( It was unchecked since I used Dial-up before for a bit security :-), now I have DSL with NAT setup inside the router ). Yep, NetBEUI is no longer needed and removed. All my 30 comp. with mixed Windows can see one another FINE and my P2P simple LAN is working well. :-)
Have fun in networking :-)