[BC] Windows NT browser problem

Cowboy curt at spam-o-matic.net
Mon Sep 29 14:08:24 CDT 2008


On Monday 29 September 2008 02:49 pm, Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>  I cannot pull up a lit of computers when I click on the Network icon; it says 
>  that the network is unavailable. It's always worked fine before, as the 
>  saying goes :-)
>  
>  If I know the computer name and share names of other computers, I can map 
>  drives just fine. Drives previusly mapped, work fine; name resolution is 
>  apparently OK then. 

 Why, I'm not sure, but try this....

 In an explorer window ( windows explorer, not internet explorer,
 even though they are the same explorer )
 In the location bar...
 type a double back slash followed by the name of one of the
 computers on the network.
 Hit enter.

 Sometimes this will populate the network browse window, for
 that "workgroup" anyway.

 Sometimes it will force a "browser election" and repopulate
 the entire network "neighborhood."

 It isn't that you can't browse, it's that you can't get a browse list
 from the "master browser" and without that, windows can't
 browse anything on any network.

-- 
Cowboy




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