Windows Networking

[Guest]

Hi All,

I have Windows 2000 Servers at 5 locations throughout California all
connected via a private point to point Frame Relay. I have Cisco 1700
routers at each location with no ports blocked. All clients are running
Windows 2000 or Windows XP Pro. None of my workgroups see each other when I
go browsing for workgroups and computers. I can only see local computers and
groups. I can ping any of my remote computers over the WAN and connect via
shared resources (c$) or VNC. I do not have a domain setup yet, these are
all workgroups at this time. I need to be able to browse all networks from
any computer. What do I not have setup right? Do I need to add to the
routeing table on my computers? I'm not sure what to do... Thanks!

 

[Richard G. Harper]

You are probably going to need to set up routing between the routers, not
from the computers. Of course you'll also have to de-conflict address
ranges between sites as well.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Your only hope for browsing in this scenario is WINS. However, at least in
older versions of Windows, this was not likely to work. ie. there was a
distinction between WAN browsing for domains vs. workgroups. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;149941

So, it might work, but .............

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP