Now You See It - Now You Don't

Hello, I am having a problem ALWAYS seeing the computers on my local Lan.
My situation is as follows:
I have Cable modem (LINKSYS BEFSR41 Mod2) connected to the router in the
"WAN" slot and then all the P/C’s connected in the "A" - "D" slots. If I
unhook the cable modem, I can see all my P/C’s, hook back the internet, and
I can not see my P/C’s. I have mixture of XP and windows (1 XP and 2
Win98- where as now all my p/c’s are XP).


I recall that I had to set all the workstations up on the same workgroup.

I installed, I believe "Client For Microsoft Networks" and "File and Print
Sharing For Microsoft Networks" (at least I had to do this on 98 machines,
but It seem to be there automatically for XP) and then I then I had to set
properties on each drive and or folder that I wanted to enable file
sharing.

So why does my visibility disappear when I connect the modem to the router?
What can I do to enable all my P/C's to share the internet connection,
while at the same time share files on the LAN?

Your assistance is greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!

I had the same problem. Here's what I did to work around it.

Open My Network Places.

Click View Workgroup Computers

Right click the networked computer and create a shortcut on the
desktop.
If you are on Computer 1 Right click Computer 2. If you are on
Computer 2,
Right click Computer 1.

Every shared folder will be accessible by using that new shortcut even
if
they don't show up in My Network Places. I don't understand why, and I
finally gave up after spending a couple of hours trying to figure it
out.

Joe

"Jim Heavey" <JimHeavey@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Xns948D674ED5BCDJimHeaveyhotmailcom@207.46.248.16...
> Hello, I am having a problem ALWAYS seeing the computers on my local Lan.
> My situation is as follows:
> I have Cable modem (LINKSYS BEFSR41 Mod2) connected to the router in the
> "WAN" slot and then all the P/C’s connected in the "A" - "D" slots. If I
> unhook the cable modem, I can see all my P/C’s, hook back the internet,
and
> I can not see my P/C’s. I have mixture of XP and windows (1 XP and 2
> Win98- where as now all my p/c’s are XP).
>
>
> I recall that I had to set all the workstations up on the same workgroup.
>
> I installed, I believe "Client For Microsoft Networks" and "File and Print
> Sharing For Microsoft Networks" (at least I had to do this on 98 machines,
> but It seem to be there automatically for XP) and then I then I had to
set
> properties on each drive and or folder that I wanted to enable file
> sharing.
>
> So why does my visibility disappear when I connect the modem to the
router?
> What can I do to enable all my P/C's to share the internet connection,
> while at the same time share files on the LAN?
>
> Your assistance is greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!