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by tomq

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How can 3 Win XP systems see each other one day, shutdown for the night, cannot see mapped drives, or each other in the AM?

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by helmofs

I've seen something similar at one of my client sites - haven't been able to explain it, except that TCP/IP and/or the WinXP firewall seem to be involved. I finally installed NETBEUI protocol and got them all on the same workgroup to solve the problem. Hope this helps!

by rind

Assuming that you are runnin DHCP, try entering the Wins details. I fixed a few problema that way.

by marc

Try clicking on Run and then enter \\computername for the computer you are tring to see, sometimes your network is working but XP's browsing service is'nt

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