"Paul Lautman" wrote:

> I have a wireless network at home and my wife and I both have laptops.
>
> Her laptop is set to be in a workgroup called REL (which she uses at work)
> whilst mine is in MSHOME.
>
> I just brought her one back from hibernation and asked it to look at the
> entire windows network, but it could only see the REL workgroup. I then went
> to my PC and it could see both REL & MSHOME. I suspect that after a while,
> her machine would see my machine too, but is there any way that I can force
> XP to find the other workgroups on the network? And why does one machine
> discover them, when another does not?
>
> TIA
> Regards
> Paul
>
>
>

"Paul Lautman" <paul.laut***@btinternet.com> wrote:

>I have a wireless network at home and my wife and I both have laptops.
>
>Her laptop is set to be in a workgroup called REL (which she uses at work)
>whilst mine is in MSHOME.
>
>I just brought her one back from hibernation and asked it to look at the
>entire windows network, but it could only see the REL workgroup. I then went
>to my PC and it could see both REL & MSHOME. I suspect that after a while,
>her machine would see my machine too, but is there any way that I can force
>XP to find the other workgroups on the network? And why does one machine
>discover them, when another does not?
>
>TIA
>Regards
>Paul
>

> "Paul Lautman" <paul.laut***@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a wireless network at home and my wife and I both have
>> laptops.
>>
>> Her laptop is set to be in a workgroup called REL (which she uses at
>> work) whilst mine is in MSHOME.
>>
>> I just brought her one back from hibernation and asked it to look at
>> the entire windows network, but it could only see the REL workgroup.
>> I then went to my PC and it could see both REL & MSHOME. I suspect
>> that after a while, her machine would see my machine too, but is
>> there any way that I can force XP to find the other workgroups on
>> the network? And why does one machine discover them, when another
>> does not?
>>
>> TIA
>> Regards
>> Paul
>>
>
> Try changing your Workgroup setting to REL using Control Panel -
> System - Computer Name and click on the Change button.
>
> That will make things much simpler.
>
> Good luck
>
> Ron Martell     Duncan B.C.    Canada

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:59:00 -0000, "Paul Lautman" <paul.laut***@btinternet.com>
wrote:

>I have a wireless network at home and my wife and I both have laptops.
>
>Her laptop is set to be in a workgroup called REL (which she uses at work)
>whilst mine is in MSHOME.
>
>I just brought her one back from hibernation and asked it to look at the
>entire windows network, but it could only see the REL workgroup. I then went
>to my PC and it could see both REL & MSHOME. I suspect that after a while,
>her machine would see my machine too, but is there any way that I can force
>XP to find the other workgroups on the network? And why does one machine
>discover them, when another does not?
>
>TIA
>Regards
>Paul

> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:59:00 -0000, "Paul Lautman"
> <paul.laut***@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a wireless network at home and my wife and I both have
>> laptops.
>>
>> Her laptop is set to be in a workgroup called REL (which she uses at
>> work) whilst mine is in MSHOME.
>>
>> I just brought her one back from hibernation and asked it to look at
>> the entire windows network, but it could only see the REL workgroup.
>> I then went to my PC and it could see both REL & MSHOME. I suspect
>> that after a while, her machine would see my machine too, but is
>> there any way that I can force XP to find the other workgroups on
>> the network? And why does one machine discover them, when another
>> does not?
>>
>> TIA
>> Regards
>> Paul
>
> Paul,
>
> Having both computers in the same workgroup does simplify things, but
> it may not be the only setting you need to make.  A common problem,
> when you have asymmetrical visibility like yours, is a misconfigured
> or overlooked personal firewall.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html
>
> If no help, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each
> computer, so we can diagnose the problem.  Read this article, and
> linked articles, and follow instructions precisely:
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp