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by bobbyjgr

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Ok let me try again I asked this question yesterday but maybe I didn't word it right. I have two pc's here in our office running Win2K Pro having the same problem. Problem being when right click "My network Places" and I choose "Search for Computers" No matter what IP address I put in I get "There are no results to display" Like I said it could be a server address or our Fiery Address etc. I get the same message. We have many Win2K pc's here that work fine when searching for computers. My nic card is ok I can ping I have an IP address everything works fine I can Log in to our servers with no problem, it's just "searching for computers" that is not working. Any ideas would be great. Has anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

Thanks again in advance.
Bobby

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by craig it mangaer

This would be a long shot, but you may want to make sure that there isn't an lmhosts file on those machines, and make sure that they are able to connect to a dns server. I'd check the network settings between the machines that are working and those that aren't and see if you can spot anything different. Double check any WINS settings as well.

by rapidad

Hi Bobby, First thing I would try is do an ipconfig /all on a machine that works and on one of the ones that does not work. Compare all the gateway/dns/wins info they should be the same, if not that will usually be the problem. Then to get more technical, if for some reason the hosts files got corrupted (and sometimes they dont show this), do an ipconfig /flush dns on the pair and then do a ipconfig /displaydns. Look here again for disimalarities. Searching for computers goes through the default gateway so that is where to start looking first.
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by bobbyjgr

I have done a comparison and everything is the same. I will check the lmhost file that I haven't checked

by timwalsh

I'm going to ask a couple of obvious questions. I'll assume you already checked these out, but I'll ask anyway because we all have overlooked the obvious at one time or another.

1. Are these 2 problem workstations joined to the domain, or are they members of a separate workgroup?
2. Can your find the the other problem computer when you search for it from 1 problem computer?
3. Can you find the problem computers when you search for them from other computers?

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