Networking

if you are on a network using Microsoft Networking and you are trying to "See" all the things in network neighborhood, do not be dismayed. The browser in MS is not very clean and is not a good way to do things. the browser works sometimes and not others depending on many factors.

not sure what you really are trying to do though.

What your seeing is a lack of browser ability by the other PCs. Are these 95 machines? If so in order to allow these computers to be a browsable resource you will need to load File & Print sharing for Microsoft as a network service. This then loads the NT equivalent to the browser service thus allowing them to be seen.

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ok and addendum to previous post We are all running windows 98 se . I cannot see any of our LOCAL pc or find them however I can find the pc of our network administrator in the corporate office if i use the find computer option however if i try to find one in our local office i cannot

Seeing others computers is also a function of what group, what type of group, what protocols are running on which computers. For example: You have a group of computers in the same group < IS_Dept > running microsoft client, netware client, ipx, and ip. Each has a unique computer name. By left clicking on network neighbor hood these pc should see each other. Make sure ipx frame type matches the frame type of your server, 802.3/802.2. If you had multiple groups running the same protocols but different group names you could also see these groups because they are microsoft networks. The netware network and those of your microsoft group can be seen also. By clicking on the Entire network you can see the microsoft network and its groups, one of which would be yours. So to see other pc you need to audit those pc for groups, names and protocols.

Hope this helps,
Bo

Try turning on and configuring your client for microsoft network in your network properties section. right click on network neighborhood-properties-select client for microsoft network and click properties and in there check the logon to domain button and type in the domain also make sure that the restore network connection button is checked. I hope this helps.

One of the most common problems at my school is when the network logon window comes up on startup, people press cancel. You MUST press OK for it to view the other computers. Make sure you do this at the Network logon. This is the window that pops upand has a picture of 2 computers. The username and password do not matter. Make sure you do this for the network logon, not the user profile one (with the picture of keys).

Right click Network Neighborhood select properties select the tab "Identification" and make sure that the Workgroup name on your computer is the same as the other computers. You will be able to see all MicroSoft machines that have the same workgroup name.

it does not logon properly i have to log off windows then log on network it is on network now anyideas on how upon start up i can get the correct logon?

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