"Larry" said:
they are each on their own subnet seperated by a router??
running windows XP computers and Apple OS X computers on both.
I can tell you how to set it up on XP, but not on Apple OS X.
I assume that the router can move traffic between the subnets.
Configure it as the default gateway for all computers, or create
subnet routes pointing to the router.
The basic problem is NetBIOS name resolution, because NetBIOS
broadcasts don't cross a router. Here are two ways to do it:
1. Install a WINS server on the network. The WINS server computer
needs a local area network connection to each subnet. It keeps track
of all the computers on all subnets and converts computer names to
their IP addresses on request. Windows client operating systems
(95/98/Me/XP) don't have a WINS server built in. Server operating
systems (NT Server, 2000 Server, Server 2003) do.
2. Create an LMHOSTS file on each computer. This file must contain
the names and IP addresses of all of the computers on the other
subnets. For practical reasons, this usually requires assigning
static IP addresses to all computers.
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