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Old 04-09-2008, 04:23 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: File sharing over a LAN

have you tried accessing the machine's shares by IP? For example, instead of going to the 'computers near me' or whatever XP calls it, just to go an explorer window and type in \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the IP of the machine you want to browse.
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