View workgroup computers

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Win XP on laptop with wireless. Internet is working fine.

When seleting view workgroup computers I only see the machine I'm on. Using
search, I can find and access other network computers and my backup drive.
How do I get the other computers to show?

I have enabled netbios over tcpip.

Thanks.
 
Win XP on laptop with wireless. Internet is working fine.

When seleting view workgroup computers I only see the machine I'm
on. Using search, I can find and access other network computers
and my backup drive. How do I get the other computers to show?

I have enabled netbios over tcpip.
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Computers show up because one computer on your subnet is elected
"Master Browser" and it keeps track of the other comuters on the
network and passes that list along when requested. The number one
cause of no computers showing up is because at least one computer on
your network has a firewall which blocks NetBT traffic. Such a
machine will insist on becoming the Master Browser because it doesn't
listen to other machines (thanks to the firewall) and thinks it's by
itself on the network. Once it becomes the master browser, its
firewall again blocks any requests from other machines to do what
Master Browsers must do -- and things fail.

See:
"Internet firewalls can prevent browsing and file sharing"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298804/en-us>

HTH,
John
 
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