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Windows XP computers can't "Browse" to other computers over WAN link

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We have two offices separated by a WAN.

Office A is our main office that has all of our servers, including domain controllers and active directory, on our own network.

Office B is a temp. office that is piggybacking off of our sister company's network, but the computers there still connect back to Office A servers to login/access services. However, Office B connects to the sister company's local domain controllers for DNS/WINS.

We're having an issue where NetBIOS names of the other office are not always showing up when browsing for computers within the WinXP Windows Explorer (My Network Places --> Entire Network --> MS Windows Network --> domain A). It seems entirely random whether or not we can see the other office's computers. We can still ping/remote to them, but cannot browse to them.

It would normally be a non-issue, but some of our software apps require us to "Browse" to the network server location, rather than being able to type in the address, during installation. Can't install if we can't browse the Office A servers.

Obviously has something to do with WINS not always populating/updating, but I'm not sure what or how to fix this.
 
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