Network path not found?

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From: Nick (nick971_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: 22 Feb 2004 23:53:24 -0800

Hi,

My home LAN consists of a Windows 2000 and an XP computer connected
through a Linksys router/switch. The two computers can see each other
in My Network Places and the XP machine can browse the 2000 machine
and access its shares. The problem is, the 2000 machine can't browse
the XP machine; if I click on the XP machine's name in My Network
Places, I get a "Network path not found" error. Pinging the XP
machine doesn't work either (it times out) but the IP address
corresponding to the XP machine's Netbios name is correctly resolved
by the Ping command so it's not a name resolution problem.

The 2000 machine is a Broadcast node and the XP machine is a Hybrid
node (it's a laptop and I use a WINS server at work, so I set it to
Hybrid instead of Broadcast, but this should still work OK because a
Hybrid node reverts to broadcasts if a WINS server is not found).

Why isn't this working?

Thanks,
-Nick

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