I found that moving my laptop from a wireless LAN to my home LAN was a problem because the network node type would get set to Peer-to-Peer when I wanted it to be Hybrid at home. I suspect the LinkSys wireless config software or driver, but there’s a way around this.
You need to edit this key in your registry. Normal disclaimers apply if you don’t know what you’re doing.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters
DhcpNodeType should be 8, not 2, to enable broadcast lookups. You can release and then renew ipconfig to pick up the change.
I made a .reg file which I use when I switch LANs if needed.
Ricardo Almeida | 15-Sep-03 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
teste veja
Dave McCandless | 08-Oct-03 at 5:56 pm | Permalink
This was the solution to our problems. We have been trying to get two DELL notebooks (D400 with XP, D500 with W2K) back onto our Windows for Workgroups network with no success. After finally discovering ipconfig /all was returning a Node type of peer-to-peer, this post told us the node type needed to be changed back to hybrid. Seems that having both the wireless and the ethernet card in the same system caused this conflict. Thanks Daniel for the help!
Dave McCandless | 08-Oct-03 at 5:59 pm | Permalink
Forgot to mention that the orginal error was inability to see other clients in the workgroup, only error was the ugly “… might not have permission to use this network resource..”
Ralphy | 12-Dec-03 at 8:51 pm | Permalink
tnx for daz infoz… muahazz hazz :::twitch:::
_-=^Fearsome RAVEN^=-_
jason | 23-Dec-03 at 11:58 am | Permalink
Im having just the opposite problem.
I have hybrid as my node type and I want to enable broadcast. Except my DHCP value is already 8. I tried releasing and renewing but nothing happened.
Im trying to connect a desktop to my citrix metaframe server and its saying it cant find it. I quadruple checked all my settings and the only diff between this system and a working one is the node type.