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April 7, 2005 at 06:23 PM
datakid

Weird XP Pro WS & WinServ2K domain prob

by datakid . Updated 21 years, 3 months ago

I am on a small domain (15 winxp pro/win2k WS, 1 win serv2k DC/file share) and have no problems logging into the domain, my mapped drive is there, and I can browse the files on that mapped drive, I’m even installing things off it.

The problem is that when I go to My Network Places->Entire Network->MS WIN Network->Natoffice(the domain) I can’t get any further – it says it has “0 objects”.

If I open a new explorer, and type \\server into the address, it comes up fine, I can browse the server, and then it appears in the domain, but no other computers do. They all disappeared about two weeks ago I think, but it didn’t seem to be causing any problems (as I could still see my mapped drive, etc), so I ignored it (my bad). I have no idea what I might have done.

Other computers can see all on domain, and they also have “workgroup” listed in the MS Win Network folder, but I don’t. We don’t use the Workgroups for anything, it’s all domain based. I get no error messages.

I’m used to linux, so this is quite weird and new for me, and I’m having to learn Win OS on the fly.

I have rebooted both machines to no effect.

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