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Networks OK one way but not the other

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PeteJohnston

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I have two desktops and a laptop on my home network. One of the desktops is WIN XP, the others are WIN2K. Even tho I set up the WINXP box to get IP addresses automatically it totally ignored the address allocated by the router until I found out how to disable it (IPAutoconfigurationEnabled in the registry) and it now hooks up to the network, almost...

I can ping the other two machines from WINXP, both by IP address and by system name, but I can't get Windows Explorer to see the other machines so that I can map network drives. I can ping the WINXP machine from both of the other machines and from them I can map a network drive to the WINXP box.

Has anyone any ideas about how I have it set up?

PeteJ
(Contract Code-monkey)

It's amazing how many ways there are to skin a cat
(apologies to the veggies)
 
It might be a NodeType issue. See:
thread779-877806
 
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