Network Places issues

[Dick Watson]

I have two issues on my XP Pro SP2 desktop that I'm having a hard time
resolving. In both these cases, my XP Pro SP2 laptop is working as expected.

1) Every place is shown as "The Internet" or "Unspecified" even though most
of the "Internet" links are really shares on the local network. Why? How
does it decide what is "Local" and what is "Internet"? I've rerun the "setup
a home or office network" wizard and no change.

2) UPnP devices are not showing up at all. I've run hide/show icons for
networked UPnP devices and confirmed both the discovery and UPnP services
are running.

I've googled and found lots about icons in the system tray...

 

[- Bobb -]

I have two issues on my XP Pro SP2 desktop that I'm having a hard time
resolving. In both these cases, my XP Pro SP2 laptop is working as
expected.

1) Every place is shown as "The Internet" or "Unspecified" even though
most of the "Internet" links are really shares on the local network.
Why? How does it decide what is "Local" and what is "Internet"? I've
rerun the "setup a home or office network" wizard and no change.

2) UPnP devices are not showing up at all. I've run hide/show icons for
networked UPnP devices and confirmed both the discovery and UPnP
services are running.

I've googled and found lots about icons in the system tray...

XP - Help -My Network Places overview says that it means YOUR pc is
accessing it via URL format - whether local network or remote (
\\192.168.1.1\share or \\dickspc\share ): that it - it is NOT local ( if
it were on YOUR PC, I read that as stating that it would show - YOUR
resource name for it )