Network Unsetup Wizard?

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James Gregory

I ran the network setup wizard but accidently typed in
the wrong name for the workgroup I wanted to connect to.

I then tried to correct my mistake, but in doing so I've
now got two workgroups set up. Clicking on the correctly
named one works fine, but if you click on the wrongly
named one in Explorer, Explorer hangs.

I could just avoid clicking on the wrong name, but there
must be some way to uninstall/delete/unsetup the one that
shouldn't be there?

Thanks,

James
 
James Gregory said:
I ran the network setup wizard but accidently typed in
the wrong name for the workgroup I wanted to connect to.

I then tried to correct my mistake, but in doing so I've
now got two workgroups set up. Clicking on the correctly
named one works fine, but if you click on the wrongly
named one in Explorer, Explorer hangs.

I could just avoid clicking on the wrong name, but there
must be some way to uninstall/delete/unsetup the one that
shouldn't be there?
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James,

I would hope that you have discovered by now that the obsolete
one disappears on its own after some time. That's how the
computer browser in Windows works.

Hans-Georg
 
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James,

I would hope that you have discovered by now that the obsolete
one disappears on its own after some time. That's how the
computer browser in Windows works.

Hans-Georg
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Oh right, so it has!

Thanks!

James
 
I would hope that you have discovered by now that the obsolete
James Gregory said:
Oh right, so it has!
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James,

just to give some background on this, the reason is that the
computer browser is designed for large networks and uses its
messaging very sparingly to save network bandwidth.

It works roughly such that one computer in each subnet is
automatically elected to be the master browser. All others ask
it for the browse list and occasionally notify the browser of
their presence.

In a small network it can take up to 15 minutes for a change to
be shown, in a large network with routers it can take a maximum
of 75 minutes until a change propagates to all computers
browsers.

Hans-Georg
 
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