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xp pro messes up the network
Our peer-to-peer network (containing my Win2000Pro desktop
that shares the dsl internet connection and assigns IP addresses to the other computers, seven 98SE desktops, one ME laptop, and one XP home desktop) works great, until an additional XP Pro laptop is connected. Then all of a sudden, the computer listing in the network neighborhood disappears from every computer. We can still get around the network either via mapped drives or via searching for a specific computer name. The XP pro laptop has no shared files or folders. Why does it do this to our network? |
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xp pro messes up the network
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:13:41 -0700, "u"
wrote: Our peer-to-peer network (containing my Win2000Pro desktop that shares the dsl internet connection and assigns IP addresses to the other computers, seven 98SE desktops, one ME laptop, and one XP home desktop) works great, until an additional XP Pro laptop is connected. Then all of a sudden, the computer listing in the network neighborhood disappears from every computer. We can still get around the network either via mapped drives or via searching for a specific computer name. The XP pro laptop has no shared files or folders. Why does it do this to our network? Is there a firewall on the offending computer? Firewalls, if not properly configured, will screw up the browser services, and file sharing. Configure the firewall to allow file and printer sharing by opening the following ports: TCP 139, 445; UDP 137, 138, 445. Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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