Accelerate network visibility - is there a way?

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Fred Marshall

Time after time I set up a network only to find that the computers don't
"see" each other in the workgroup - at least not right away.

Playing games with the master browser has been done - like having only one
computer with the Computer Broswer service running - but this seems a little
weird in view of how things are supposed to "work".

What I want is a "magic button" to push that makes the browsing function
just happen - fast. Surely handshaking over the network doesn't take long
at all. So, why is it so terribly slow and how can that slowness be
overcome?

This is a huge time-waster and makes for very inefficient networking.

Thanks,

fred
 
Assuming you're talking about a peer network with a common Workgroup,
enabling NetBIOS on all machines in the Workgroup might help.
 

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