[BC] Windows NT browse list

[Xmitters at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/30/08 5:00:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

 > 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.
 >

 >   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:

Any network drive I click on coomes right up. I can ping any computer by name
or IP, and I get a ping response.

I think you're right-on about my NT machine not knowing who the browser is,
or perhaps browser service is not running.


Jeff Glass, BSEE CSRE
Chief Engineer
WNIU WNIJ
Northern Illinois University