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by sblades 1 view

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I have a machine on a peer-to-peer Win '98 network that suddenly (after working for a year like this) cannot open Network Neighborhood and browse. When I say browse, I mean the hourglass goes on and on and never resolves(can't even see itself). I can, however, map network shares in Explorer and access the other network shares.
I have uninstalled/reinstalled the protocols (Netbeui and TCP/IP), made each the default protocol, tried TCP/IP only, Netbeui only and still cannot get netwk neighborhood browse. It seems to be a resolution problem, but I can't get a grip on it.
The weird thing is the same thing happened at another client on a Win '98 station on an NT network with a domain (master browser). I can map UNC's all day long, butcannot browse in net neighborhood. Even changed network cards and cabling, ports on hub and changed hubs. It doesn't happen on other machines, just the one Win '98.
Help! Anyone seen this? Thanks!!

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by Member 28438281

It sounds like you might have a".DLL" conflict in your WIN98 program (ie: systems/system32 folder). Have you tried to re-install WIN98 ? Sometimes with .dll conficts, re-installing 98 will fix it. Another try would be uninstalling "network" completely and re-installing "network protocols" from scratch. But the best way is to re-install 98(including all available patches (see microsoft.con\updates).

by Member 35772270

I have worked on the same kind of problem before. Uninstalled and reinstall everything rebooted, nothing worked, had to go do something else so I killed all of the power. When I came back and turned it on again it started working.

by earnest

How many machines on the network? I work at a large university. We mainly use the ndis drivers but not all are on a peer-peer network, annnnyway we have lots of machines showing in network neighborhood. Sometimes when I open the hood the flashlight just flashes or the hour glass just sits there. If I refresh the screen I can usually see the machines. Maybe what you have is something slowing down the machine so it just takes longer to show you the network, or a video memory/ resolution issue. You know the network settings are good else you couldn't have as much working as you do. You are on a peer-peer,does it matter if you are showing microsoft or netware machines? If both what does clicking "entire network" get you?......

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