Can't browse WinXP computer on Home Network...(intermittent)

[Keith]

I thought I'd seen each and every possible problem on windows machines
over the past 8 years, but this one beats me ?!
It's faiily straghtforward:
1. It's intermittent
2. From my Win2k/Win98 machines I can see the WinXP computer in
Network Neighbourhood
3. Most of the time, when clicking, I get "\\xxx is not accessible -
The network path was not found." - sometimes (no pattern) it works
though...
4. But mapping a drive on xxx using the IP addres works fine...
5. So why bother fixing this issue - well because it's a pain for a
start but also because PocketPC networking doesn't seem to work with
IP addresses :-(

So:
1. DNSolution problems? Probably not?

Thanks for any thoughts!

 

[JasonA]

Can be DNS even though I was told otherwise. I put the 98 and XP machines
onto the mshome.net domain and did a few other things and all is working. I
don't use 2000 but without XP in the equation it works fine. Because you
have 2000 you would also need to make sure the settings on 2000 are the
same.

 

[Keith]

Try running a PING test on the workstation, if that doesnt
work, go into both of the workstations and check to see it
they have a set or floating MAC Address.

Yes PING works fine both from my w2k laptop and my PocketPC. Floating
MAC address on the WinXP machine? I doubt it but I'll take a look at
the settings of the 802.11b adapter.

 

[Keith]

Can be DNS even though I was told otherwise. I put the 98 and XP machines
onto the mshome.net domain

Is that a particular domain?