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Strange intermittant visibility of new computer in workgroupWe have added a 6th computer to our office Workgroup LAN. All units are
running Windows XP Professional (SP1, except the 6th which has SP2). The original 5 units operate normally on the network. The newest unit only stays visible in View Workgroup Computers (or to the "net view" command) for no more than a few hours after rebooting that system. The shared folders on that unit stay visible longer, sometimes for days, but eventually disappear as well. The new computer and its shares can always be found and then accessed by using Search. Hardware has been checked and rechecked for reliability with no problems found. McAffee and windows XP firewalls have been disabled to no effect on the problem. All power saving features I can find have been disabled. Any ideas on fixing this problem will be greatly appreciated. I am thinking it is master browser issue. Any errors in the event viewer?
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "BudKTorMaxx" <BudKTorM***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:07E1333E-43A1-4AB8-8FEC-B39EE3E0BEC7@microsoft.com... We have added a 6th computer to our office Workgroup LAN. All units are running Windows XP Professional (SP1, except the 6th which has SP2). The original 5 units operate normally on the network. The newest unit only stays visible in View Workgroup Computers (or to the "net view" command) for no more than a few hours after rebooting that system. The shared folders on that unit stay visible longer, sometimes for days, but eventually disappear as well. The new computer and its shares can always be found and then accessed by using Search. Hardware has been checked and rechecked for reliability with no problems found. McAffee and windows XP firewalls have been disabled to no effect on the problem. All power saving features I can find have been disabled. Any ideas on fixing this problem will be greatly appreciated. In the Event Viewer there are informational messages only.
Thanks, Bud Show quoteHide quote "Robert L [MS-MVP]" wrote: > I am thinking it is master browser issue. Any errors in the event viewer? > > Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE > Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net > How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com > "BudKTorMaxx" <BudKTorM***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:07E1333E-43A1-4AB8-8FEC-B39EE3E0BEC7@microsoft.com... > We have added a 6th computer to our office Workgroup LAN. All units are > running Windows XP Professional (SP1, except the 6th which has SP2). The > original 5 units operate normally on the network. The newest unit only stays > visible in View Workgroup Computers (or to the "net view" command) for no > more than a few hours after rebooting that system. The shared folders on that > unit > stay visible longer, sometimes for days, but eventually disappear as well. > The new computer and its shares can always be found and then accessed by > using Search. Hardware has been checked and rechecked for reliability with no > problems found. McAffee and windows XP firewalls have been disabled to no > effect on the problem. All power saving features I can find have been > disabled. Any ideas on fixing this problem will be greatly > appreciated 
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