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November 1, 2007 at 09:27 AM
randy21m

Computer Not Showing up in My Network Places

by randy21m . Updated 12 years, 11 months ago

Hello,

My problem is, I have 3 PC’s, all running XP Pro SP2. When first setting them all up and adding them to “My Workgroup”, everything is fine and I can see the PC’s Shares in My Network Places, and see all PC’s under View Workgroup Computers. But the problem is after some time, we’ll say an hour or more (I usually see a change over night), I go back to one of the PC’s later, open My Network places then View Workgroup Computers, and 1 of the computers no longer displays in there. Though I can ping the computer by IP and NETBIOS name. I can even “Run ->\\nameofcomputer” and get to the computer and it’s shares with no problem. It just won’t show up in the View Workgroup Computers area. The only way I have found to rememdy this is to restart the comuter and then it will show up again for a little while and then disappear. I know this is not an Adaware/Virus issue for I have reformatted the entire drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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