workgroup not found

workgroup not found!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
what happened i dont think i changed anything but im getting workgroup not found!!!!
wtf?????
i have shared and reshared the folder i have all my stuff in, then even the whole drive and i get nothing.
how do i  troubleshoot this issue ?

i will also mention, i have had xbmc up and running for several months prior to this incident.

Please help, Im having the same issue and dont know how to make it find the workgroup, it had seen them for 5 months and now, gone. What happened?

 

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Hey guys, so let's do some trouble shooting here.  Something must have changed in the overall setup because these things don't magically do things on their own.  So if you can think back and remember something that might have changed, either with the Xbox (maybe you upgraded the dash?), the network (new router? new computer attached?) or the computer themselves (new OS?) that would help things out immensely.

Also, just to do some general tests, can you guys access the Internet at all with the Xbox?  That is, when you launch XBMC, do you see the RSS feeds coming in through?  Can you ftp to your Xbox from your computer?

So obviously there are a lot of possibilities here, and we need to narrow things down to come up with a solution. But I'm sure it's not a big problem and should be fixed soon enough.

Hey guys, so let's do some trouble shooting here.  Something must have changed in the overall setup because these things don't magically do things on their own.  So if you can think back and remember something that might have changed, either with the Xbox (maybe you upgraded the dash?), the network (new router? new computer attached?) or the computer themselves (new OS?) that would help things out immensely.

yes i removed mcafee, then reinstalled bitdefender pro

Also, just to do some general tests, can you guys access the Internet at all with the Xbox?  That is, when you launch XBMC, do you see the RSS feeds coming in through?  Can you ftp to your Xbox from your computer?

yes i get the rss feeds the weather

So obviously there are a lot of possibilities here, and we need to narrow things down to come up with a solution. But I'm sure it's not a big problem and should be fixed soon enough.


do i need to access my d-link router setup to fix this?
i am going to re read the faq, thanks for the hand omar.

Ok, so the RSS feeds are working meaning that your Xbox is connected to the Internet just fine.

I'm pretty sure the problem is your new firewall, I imagine that Bitdefender Pro is messing things up.  And ya, looking at the BitDefender website the professional version includes a firewall, so I'm like 99% certain that's the problem.  Check out the bitdefender firewall settings and see how restrictive it is in regards to opening up ports and that kind of thing.  If you're not familiar with how to configure a firewall... well I guess I can try to help you out with that but I'm not expert!  Hopefully the help manual and such should be of service, but ya, it's definitely got to do with BitDefender.

ok i took down my firewall, bitdefender and i still cant see my xbox, what does that mean?

Ok, you can't see your Xbox eh... hmmm

but the Xbox is still connected to the Internet.  And they're on the same network... do you know the IP address of the Xbox?  And can you at least ping it?

im sorry i meant it still didnt fix it, should i go into dlink settings now?
do you have im ?