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Edward

I 2 comps and a laptop on windows xp. eveything is fine
but sometimes i'm not able to see some of the other
computers in my workgroup. the other comps can see me
but i cant see one of them. but sometimes it will work
fine and it sees all while sometimes it doesn't see
anything at all. all the comps have netbios over tcp/ip
enabled. can you please tell me why.
 
"Edward" said:
I 2 comps and a laptop on windows xp. eveything is fine
but sometimes i'm not able to see some of the other
computers in my workgroup. the other comps can see me
but i cant see one of them. but sometimes it will work
fine and it sees all while sometimes it doesn't see
anything at all. all the comps have netbios over tcp/ip
enabled. can you please tell me why.
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It can take up to 15 minutes after a computer starts up before network
browsing works. During that time, you should be able to access
another computer by typing the other computer's name in the Start |
Run box preceded by two backslash characters:

\\computer
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