XP sharing issue

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From: jmv (jmv_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:17:36 -0800

Hello,

I have a local network sharing a gateway for internet access.
On this network resides:
PC1- 1 Laptop using Win 2003
PC2- 1 dekstop with WinXP Pro

I am having a real difficult time viewing the shared documents of PC2 from
PC1. Both PC1 and PC2 use the same WORKGROUP.
Both PC1 and PC2 have DNS IPs provided by the gateway.
Sometimes I am able to Map a drive on PC1 for a shared dir residing on PC1.
However the only way I am able to do this is to explicitly use the IP address
of PC2, i.e: \\\192.168.2.55\shareddir

Browsing the MS network from PC1 does not work, i.e. I cannot view the
shared drives of PC2.

Does anyone have a clue on this?

Thanks

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