Network broken on Win2K machine

[horsefaceba]

Hello,

I have a four machine network in my house, 3 Win 2K and 1 win 98. When I turned on my main machine today (WIN 2K) and attempted to connect to any of the other machines through the network neighboorhood, I get the following message:

WORKGROUP is not available. The network is not present or not started.

My network has been working fine across all machines, File Sharing, TCP/IP and IPX for games everything was fine until this morning.

I checked MS web site and found a registry fix for an Wim ME machine but nothing for WIN 2K. Ping works both in and out of this machine going from this machne and to this machine.

When I click on System Properties the Network ID is greyed out (see attached file) and I have never seen that before.

In the event viewer, I do have this messageS:

The FTP Publishing Service service hung on starting.
The Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) service hung on starting.
The World Wide Web Publishing Service service hung on starting.
The FTP Publishing Service service terminated with the following error:
The authentication service is unknown.
SAM failed to start the TCP/IP or SPX/IPX listening thread

So...anyone have any ideas? I just hope I do not have to re-install... Oh yes..one more thing. I have uninstalled and re-installed the network card and drivers, the FTP service, the WWW pub service but to no avail..

Thanks..

Jim

[smily_03]

how's your TCP/IP set up? do you have a DHCP server somewhere on your network, or is it all done with static IP's? you might want to besure that your computer has an IP address; to verify this, go to start -> run, then type in cmd and hit enter or ok. at the command line, type in ipconfig /all and hit enter. you should have an ip address (prob. something like 172.16.x.y or 192.168.x.y) make sure that this matches the config of your other computers. also, make sure your computer has its network cable plugged into the computer and also a hub or switch because if the cable is unplugged, services like that will tend to fail.

[horsefaceba]

Thanks.. Yes, I have a DHCP server running from my router. One of the machines is configured static and the rest of them are dynamic. This particular machine is set up dynamic and it has a valid IP assigned.

The network cable is plugged in because I can reach this machine from every other machine on the network and the internet is available through the router.

THanks...

Jim