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by jhicks

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Have a peer to peer network with 3 windows 2000 machines and 1 windows 98 se machine. Windows 2000 machines don't always see the network. Out of the 3 windows 2000 machines, 1 seems to be unable to browse the network most often. There dosen't seem to be a specific reason for the 1 machine not to be able to browse ,ie. most of the time the 1 pc that can't browse is usually the first one booted up in the morning. But it's not always the first to boot up so I cant tie boot up order to the specific problem. All 3 windows 2000 machines are running SP3. I'm kind of baffled to the cause of this problem. All pcs are on the same workgroup and on the same subnet. Thanks for any input.

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by quintar51

are you able to ping the other machines from the problematic machine? If so, it's not a tcp/ip problem. If you can't, then see if you can ping 127.0.0.1.

also, do you have a firewall running?

by mainard1

instead of browsing try the unc from the run command

start
run
type in \\(name of the computer)
and hit enter

if this works then your network is working alright.

by kate

what type of network card do you use?
I have had a periodic problem with a specific type of onboard network card - the SiS900. It tends to either drop the network regularly and randomly or not ever see the network to begin with. I have had this happen more than once between this NIC and Windows, 200 and 98se. It seems to work perfectly on some machines and terribly on others, so I really can't say why or how to fix besides replacing the card. It usually fixes itself on a restart.
Hope this may help.

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