Seeing workgroup from XP client

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Fred Marshall

Network with Win 2000 Pro server.
2 Windows NT4 client machines
2 Windows XP client machines

3 of the machines see the server on the network in the workgroup.
However, while one of the XP machines is able to MAP folders on the server
just fine, this same machine doesn't see anything in the Workgroup????

Seems a contradiction. I need to fix it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Fred
 
If the IP address is set to Auto Assign, try turning
on "Enable NetBios over TCP/IP". TCP/IP Properties,
Advanced, WINS.

I have found that if this is off not only can the XP PC
not browse the network (although drive mapping works OK)
but other PCs may not be able to browse either.

If the IP address is set to manual assign this problem
does not seem to arise, probably because Windows changes a
heap of setting between manual and auto assign.
 
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