Visibility of computers in View Workgroup Computers

[Artitus]

Hi,

I have three pcs on a lan, networked with a SMC wireless router. Sharing
folders and printers works fine. One problem is the two machines running
XPpro don't "show" themselves when you view workgroup computers. The XPHome
pc does.

If I go into explorer and put in the pcs name e.g. \\officelappy it is
accessed fine. This inidicates to me that this is not a basic IP, workgroup
or firewall config problem.

I suspect there is a reg setting stopping the machines identifying
themselves as the two in question were oriniginally work machines on a
company domain system. Most of the work specific setting have been reset to
default, but I suspect that
I have missed something here.

Thanks,

Artitus

 

[Carey Holzman]

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