[jason_fx]

Hi,

I configured recently a smal network on a arquitecture studio with 3 computers.
I bought a router with 4 ports and i conected the 3 computers to the router. Then i configured the 3 computers:
- Created a WorkGroup
- Put different names on each computer

The router detected very well the ip´s and the name of the computers, but, i had many problems to share files and to detect other computers on the network. After 2 hours it was working well.

What was the problem? Can i have problems in future?

 

[johnwill]

This is not uncommon for workgroup computing with Windows. Actually, it probably got sorted out in about 15 to 30 minutes. :smile:

You can control the browser election process, here's a page that describes customizing it. http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/435/09/11.html

 

[jason_fx]

it´s weird why it took so long to work well. Since then i didn´t notice any problem. The problem is that i dont have any server with a domain and dns, that would resolve this kind of things. But for a cheap work that gotta do.