Unnecessary Icons for Network Places

[W. Watson]

I have two computers networked: A. XP Pro, B. Linux/W2000 dual boot. When I'm using
XP/W2000, I can see from either XP or W2000 a Network Places icon for the Linux
(Samba) machine even though it is not booted (instead W2000 is). What's going on?

Even odder is that I didn't like the name of the W2000 machine so I changed it via
Ctrl Panel->Systems->Networking from AstroPC2004 to AstroPC2004-W2K. Now from the XP
machine's Network Places I see an icon for both AstroPC2004 and AstroPC2004-W2K. I
cannot delete the first of the two. If I look at its properties, it basically tells
me there's nothing there. I Agree, but how do I get rid of it?
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

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[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Browsing is not an efficient way to locate network resources. The stale
icons will disappear eventually. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188001

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[W. Watson]

Browsing is not an efficient way to locate network resources. The stale
icons will disappear eventually. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188001

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP



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Thanks. It's very confusing having it hang around.