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Originally Posted by johnwill
What's the "View whole network" option?
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Oh.
On XP I'm talking about View Computer Connections.
That gives the local Area Connection on the Rhine Fast Ethernet Network/Connected/Firewalled/
Doesn't show workgroups or anything else. It's bare.
On Win2k:
Start> My Network Places > Entire Network gives an Empty window
Under Computers Near Me My Network Places gives the compter icon lon1machspeed.
Even though no connections seem to visible, shortcut from
lon1machspeed to a personal shared folder on lon2biostar is functioning.
That's the only thing that functioning with out errors.
Plus my slippers are getting worn out.
I'm still in the position of having to clean things out and not knowing
what needs to go. The advice above about letting the wizard do it went unanswered.
I've looked at what should be done about firewalling in XP at the Control Panel but did not find any places to turn things off.
From your previous cookbook help all I've really done is make the name and password the same on both machines.