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Old July 13th 10, 11:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
kd833
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Default NetBIOS name resolution problems between XP PCs

On Jul 13, 2:50*am, Hans-Georg Michna hans-
wrote:
I don't know whether there is a specific solution to the problem
you are describing. Let's see if anybody comes up with one.

But generally everything that relies on the computer browser is
unreliable, so even if you get this to work, a new problem can
crop up any time.

Can you directly navigate to \\PC1\Temp and \\PC2\Temp (after
adjusting computer and share names to the ones you actually
use)? If so, then that is a reasonable workaround that is much
more reliable.

Hans-Georg


If I understand your question to mean, can I navigate into the shares
by other methods like, creating network drives or just typing in the
UNC paths in the address bar to move in and out of the shares, then
yes. Everything works. Even doing dir and cd at the DOS prompt to the
shares works, I only see this issue when using My Network Places
(which is explorer.exe). Maybe I caused the problem myself due to
navigating in and out of the shares (with the mouse clicks), which may
have caused packet collisions.
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