[X4U] Windows 2000 File Sharing Vanished

[Ean Kingston]

> I'm not quite sure what happened - but somehow my ability to file share
> Windows 2000 with OSX 10.3.8 vanished yesterday.

Since MS released a batch of updates a couple of days ago you might want
to double check the new MS firewall settings to see if they are configured
to prevent your MS 2000 system from actually receiving the network traffic
for file sharing.

Beyond that I don't know what to say. My iMac has used DHCP to get it's ip
address since I first got it and I don't have a problem (of course I'm not
using Windows 2000 either).

> Short story:
>
> - I'm using a linksys router for a long time and cable modem
> - for long time I have been set up using static local ips for the 2 macs
> and
> dynamically using DHCP for Windows 2000.
> -  Everything worked fine for a long time
> -  yesterday my cable modem provider came over -  and for several reasons
> -
> we ended up switching the two macs back to DHCP rather than static
> connections
> -  we did not change anything else -  aside from normal rebooting etc.
>
> -  now - after trying many things - I still cannot see the Windows 2000
> computer showing up in my network tab on either of the two macs...
>
> -  yes ... I have rebooted many times - checked system preferences
> including
> making new locations - both dynamic DHCP or STATIC ( the way it was) ... -
> rechecked Windows file sharing
>
> -  I also checked that the protocol of AppleTalk was active on Windows
>
> (**  although the pull-down menu in properties was blank - could this be
> it?) - how would I fix this - if so?
>
> -  Also - for testing purposes I entirely removed the zone alarm - even
> though I created some trusted zones within the range of IP for the other
> two
> macs.
>
> -  I double checked on Windows that the shares were active for the
> particular hard drives
>
> -  I even did a master reset of the router and  power cycled the modem
>
> -   I have been using share points successfully for a long time - and it
> appears that I can still see the macs from the Windows machine...  So this
> file sharing works in this direction...
>
> -  all Internet connections on all computers work fine
>
> - but still no matter what I do - No file sharing is available from
> WINDOWS
>>MAC
>
> - WHAT HAPPENED -  how can I fix this?
>
>
>
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