Networking XP to Win2K

Let me preface this by saying that this network connection worked fine until
a few months ago and nothing was changed by me to make it stop working.

I have a desktop running Win2K and a laptop running WinXP sp2. The desktop
can see the laptop just fine. The laptop suddenly stopped being able to see
the workgroup. Saw I was getting a browser event error8021 and thought that
might be it. Gave up after a week of messing with it.

Today. ..In my network places the laptop can see the workgroup including the
desktop sometimes. Other times I get an error that either the workgroup or
the laptop is not accessible and that I might night have permissions, etc.
(Username and pw are the same on both machines and always has been). The
drive on the desktop computer is shared correctly with the $ behind the drive
name. When I try to add a network place (when it is seeing the workgroup)
the utility hangs and stops responding. When I try to browse to the
desktop through Windows Explorer, it takes forever to open the directory for
the workgroup and then for the desktop, but goes no further. It stops
responding also. I can close everything and start trying again and then the
workgroup is suddenly not accessible from the laptop (workgroup is named the
same on both computers). This happens with both wired and wireless
connections on the laptop. I have made sure that the firewall isn't on.

I can ping the desktop from the laptop by IP and by name.

I'm at a loss.
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