Re: Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"??

Wrong subnet mask usually. NetBIOS is broadcast based. What is constitutes a
network broadcast is determined by the subnet mask. If one computer has a
different subnet mask than the others, it's broadcast will not appear as a
broadcast to the other machines (even though they can still connect and ping
by ip address or WINS / DNS resolved name).

....kurt

"mike" <spamme0@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11qp72qiq552642@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"??
>
> Windows 2000SP4, windows98se wired local network.
> Using DHCP, it works fine. DHCP is in the router.
>
> I want a fixed IP address for one of my 98se machines.
> When I do that, the fixed IP machine disappears from the "computers near
> me"
> menu on the 2K machine. Also missing from "entire network".
> Search finds it.
> I can still make a new network place and
> access the machine.
> The 2K machine is also missing from the 98se machine's network
> neighborhood.
> Turning off the firewell doesn't help.
>
> My xp machine can still see the fixed address 98se machine. Looks like a
> win2k
> issue.
>
> I have almost no win2K experience.
> How do I fix this so I can have a fixed IP machine without losing
> functionality?
>
> The root of my problem is that my laptop hibernates. When it's off, DHCP
> assigns its IP address to a new machine. When the laptop comes out of
> hibernation with it's old, now conflicting, IP address, things gets ugly
> on the network.
> Fixed IP address fixes this problem, but creates the one above.
>
> Thanks, mike


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