Re: odd Network behaviour since SP2

Thanks Mark,

I'll give that a try.

Regards,

- Geoff


"Mark Curtis" <mcurtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d4nddl$1on$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have exactly the same problem. What cured it was to assign an IP address
>and sub-net mask manually rather than use automatic. I have a mixture of
>Home and Professional XP's. i tried all of the suggestions in this news
>group before comming upon this. Hope it works for you.
>
> "Geoff Briedé" <geoff.briedeNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%232ic72tSFHA.3840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've noticed a rather odd thing Windows is doing now that it wasn't doing
>> before service pack 2: When I boot up one of the seven computers on my
>> network they show up under the workgroup nice and quickly - all correct
>> and properly.
>>
>> After about half an hour (or thereabouts) they drop out of the list - the
>> computers are still there, I mean I can access them and the mapped drives
>> still function - but there is no icon under the workgroup's name (in the
>> left Explorer tree view) or in the folder itself on the right if I
>> highlight on the left the workgroup name. It's annoying, but not
>> particularly debilitating - but if I want to have a look at the drives
>> list on one of the "invisible" workstations, I have to type \\pcName in
>> an address bar, and wait 20 or 30 seconds for the drives to show up.
>>
>> The behaviour is so ubiquitous across the network that is seems to be a
>> planned thing, but I can't think why MS would do such a thing. I wish
>> they hadn't bothered, too.
>>
>> Any ideas for ending this annoying new behaviour?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> - Geoff
>>
>
>


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