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Neighborhood Network Update

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by rnrruss

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When double clicking Neighborhood Network in Win 95/98, or My Network Places in Win2000, a list of computers on the network is displayed. But this list is not always a accurate listing of computers currently present. Some computers could have loggedoff or logged on since this list was last generated.
What is the time interval or event that generates the need to acquire a listing of computers on the network? And how can you instruct windows to update the displayed listing immediately?

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by don christner

As I remember it, every 20 minutes the master browser requests computers to report any shared resources. Then the master browser updates all backup browsers. So it could take 40 minutes to propagate changes. If you know the computer name that you want to connect to hit Start-find-computers and type in the name.

Don

by rnrruss

Hoped for more responses, but, oh well! Thanks for your response. It gave me an idea anyways. Wish I knew the manual command, but you at least answered so I'll give you the points. Unlike a growing number of cheats in the tech republic that justreject all answers to keep the points.

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