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by matt5968

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I have 2 pc on a peer 2 peer lan. on running win-me and other w2k pro. They were working till I had to replace hard drive in win2k. Now I can access win 2k pc from win-me no problem. But I try to acces the win-me from w2k I get message saying the win-me pc is not accessable. and network path not found.
I can ping ok from both pc s ..ip addresss and mask is ok. have ms client service on both pc.. please help.. iv reloaded w2k before with no problems till now, thanks

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by beermonster

Sounds like your w2k box is unable to resolve the me netbios name. as a test, try connecting to your me machine by using the ip address instead of the name - IE "\\10.20.30.40\sharename I think you'll find that will work. depending on what name resolution you are using, two possible fixes are - specify a wins server on the w2k machine (if you have one) or go into advanced settings on the tcpip properties of your lan connection, and enable netbios over tcpip.

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