Re: Home Network - can't access using share name

There are several possible causes. One is disabled NetBIOS - see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318030

General networking theory would recommend that you configure Main with a
static IP address because it provides network resources and is presumably a
permanent or semi-permanent machine on this network. If you did that, then
you could use an lmhosts file on the problem laptop:

Use NotePad and open C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\lmhosts.sam

Add a line to the end of this file:

<IPaddressofMain> main #PRE

Save the file as 'lmhosts' with no extension. Navigate to the file in
Windows Explorer and make sure that is saved as lmhosts - not lmhosts.txt.

Reboot the laptop and try \\main.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Eric" <Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4FB33AC0-AF92-4795-AF6C-5BEE0E132DA3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have 5 PCs connected to our home network - 4 wireless, 1 desktop.
Printer/music/media is shared from the desktop to the network.
Desktop's name is \\MAIN
All but one of the wireless PCs can access the desktop using \\MAIN but
one
laptop cannot - I have to use the IP address \\192.168.xx.xxx, for
example.
Problem is that if I restart the desktop it will get a new IP address from
my router, which will then require me to re-map to a new IP address from
the
laptop. All of the other PCs can access \\MAIN using the "friendly" name
regardless of the IP address. Why? Can I fix this? Thanks.


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