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Please help. I have a simple network -- 2 Windows XP computers and 1 Windows
2000 computer hooked up through a router. Every few months, the network
stops working and I typically spend about 8 hours trying to figure out why.
My friends who own Macintoshes laugh at me. I'm not kidding.
Anyway, this time I'm about 4 hours in and I've discovered I can ping all
the computers on the network, but I can't browse them with Explorer. My
research has told me this points to a problem with the computer browser
service. I've confirmed that the computer browser service is turned on for
all computers. Furthermore, I believe I've isolated the problem to one of
the XP machines. My best diagnosis so far is that, even though the computer
browser is turned on for that computer, it is not broadcasting its presence
to the other computers on the network. Furthermore, I've seen hints that
there is a registry entry which causes this behavior. Nevertheless, I can't
figure out what that registry entry is.
Can anyone help?
-TC
Please help. I have a simple network -- 2 Windows XP computers and 1 Windows
2000 computer hooked up through a router. Every few months, the network
stops working and I typically spend about 8 hours trying to figure out why.
My friends who own Macintoshes laugh at me. I'm not kidding.
Anyway, this time I'm about 4 hours in and I've discovered I can ping all
the computers on the network, but I can't browse them with Explorer. My
research has told me this points to a problem with the computer browser
service. I've confirmed that the computer browser service is turned on for
all computers. Furthermore, I believe I've isolated the problem to one of
the XP machines. My best diagnosis so far is that, even though the computer
browser is turned on for that computer, it is not broadcasting its presence
to the other computers on the network. Furthermore, I've seen hints that
there is a registry entry which causes this behavior. Nevertheless, I can't
figure out what that registry entry is.
Can anyone help?
-TC