STILL cannot see Win7 from XP and XP from Win7

maxseven · 13 Oct 2011

I was playing with this just now, the FindMasterBrowser.vbs I use to ID which PC it is. Note it may not return the name of your workgroup properly (mine is HOME and I fiddled with ThePattern4 to get it to work) and I REM'ed-out the deletes for the NBTList and NetViewList.txt files.

I think all PCs can run Visual Basic scripts but maybe not.

I'll see what I can find re: the NetBIOS problem.

maxseven · 13 Oct 2011

rdettwyler said:

I still cannot start AFD for Winsock, even after the restore. I don't know about Master Browser but will look into it.

Did you confirm from my earlier post that you have NetBIOS enabled? Take a look at this page:

Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on Windows Vista

I think it's on by default but maybe not...

rdettwyler · 13 Oct 2011

It has been enabled on the network adapter. But the service will not start because the AFD dependency won't start and I haven't found a way to start it, as it is not an independent service.

maxseven · 13 Oct 2011

Have you tried the steps in this thread:

Ancillary Function Driver for winsock failed to start

rdettwyler · 13 Oct 2011

Event Viewer
The NetBT service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

Well, that explains a lot, doesn't it?

rdettwyler · 13 Oct 2011

So I got copies of netbt.sys and netbios.sys, copied to \Windows\System32 and tried to register them with regsvr32. I get this error:

The module "netbios.sys" was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found. Make sure that "netbios.sys" is a valid ....

aem · 13 Oct 2011

The more things you tried to get it to work by changing settings the more it won't work. Do you have the W7 CD with you? what you can do is do a system repair and see how you do. The system R is at the second prompt after you running the Cd. No files or Software will be deleted so don't worry.

Try that.

rdettwyler · 14 Oct 2011

I used my Win7 disc and Repaired the OS. Now the NetBios Helper is running. However, I see only my own Win7 PC again. So, I built another Win7 Professional on an old Dell 400SC server that was running XP Pro. It installed perfectly. It required no additional drivers of any sort. I established my Home network and immediately saw all of the computers running on my network, wired and wireless, the storage attached to the router, and even the iMAC. BUT the original Win7, which was just repaired, showed only itself and now the newly built Win7 Pro. It seems to me that I need to do a new install of Win7 Pro on the problematic PC.

I will be installing Win7 Pro 32-bit on two HP Vostro PCs, which are running XP Pro 32-bit. I am hopeful that they, too, will require no additional drivers. I'll let you know.

Thanks all for your responses.

Darryl Licht · 14 Oct 2011

rdettwyler said:

I used my Win7 disc and Repaired the OS. Now the NetBios Helper is running. However, I see only my own Win7 PC again. So, I built another Win7 Professional on an old Dell 400SC server that was running XP Pro. It installed perfectly. It required no additional drivers of any sort. I established my Home network and immediately saw all of the computers running on my network, wired and wireless, the storage attached to the router, and even the iMAC. BUT the original Win7, which was just repaired, showed only itself and now the newly built Win7 Pro. It seems to me that I need to do a new install of Win7 Pro on the problematic PC.

I will be installing Win7 Pro 32-bit on two HP Vostro PCs, which are running XP Pro 32-bit. I am hopeful that they, too, will require no additional drivers. I'll let you know.

Thanks all for your responses.

Just curious... do you have a spare NIC you could try in that PC? Perhaps you have a bad NIC or bad cable?