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Can't View XP Computer on Home Network

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by swarajban

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I've had a small home network set-up for a couple years with 2 xp laptops, 1 xp pc, and a network hard drive (I have a linksys wireless router where the PCs are all wireless and the network hard drive is connected via ethernet cable to the router). Everything was working fine until I upgraded the hard drive on one of the xp laptops and had to reinstall everything. I added the new laptop to the network and turned on File and Printer Sharing. I can print to the upgraded laptop's computer over the network and I can access the laptop's files by entering \\computer name, but whenever I go to 'My Network Places' the shared files do not show up and when I click 'View Workgroup Computers' my laptop doesn't show up.

Can anyone help me fix this?

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by churdoo

Does the upgraded lappy have the same workgroup name? Did you run the home network setup weez-ard on the upgraded lappy? Windows firewall settings?

by blitz240

I've encounted the same issue. In fact, i didn't even do any upgrade, one of the computer just didn't show up under My Network Places.

End up I manually added the folders of the hidden computer through "Add a network place".

If anyone knows the solution to this issue, any advice would be much appreciated

by sgt_shultz

netbios is what is used for browsing in the 'net neighborhood. maybe you need to enable it (although it is by default)
any firewalls in play here?
did you use the setup network wizard?

by mstephens

In computer properties on the new PC, have you given the PC a network ID?

by swarajban

I have run the network setup wizard again on all the computers so I know that they are all on the same workgroup and I know what the names of all the computers are. Also, I have enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP through the advanced--> WINS tab on the upgraded laptop. It is still not working.

I have been reading some stuff about this online and keep running across something about the computer browser service and something about a master browser. Can someone please explain that to me and how it might be affecting my setup?

Thanks.

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