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by cryingdragon

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I have a 2k network with one ME machine attached. The ME machine can't see any of the network shares or network printers. It can ping any of the resources. To make this stranger, the 2000 machines can see any of the shares on the ME machine. Cansomeone please let me know how to have the ME machine see "Network Neighborhood"?

Thanks,
Mike

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by aplus_certifiable

Are the 2000 machines set for NTFS or FAT32? ME won't be able to find (or more correctly stated Read) the NTFS files. Also I'm sure you have you done it, but make sure file sharing is enabled on all the 2000 machines.

by tony.colgrove

Answer 1 is unfortunately miss lead. ME could not see NTFS partitions on its local machine, but remote computers can be formatted in whatever file format the remote machine supports.
The Win95/98/SE/ME cannot see any shares (file or print) that have a share name that is longer then 12 characters. Make sure all printer and file shares have nice short names for the ME box. You should also make sure that the ME box has its workgroup field set to the domain name. ME does not like being the only machine in a workgroup.
Hope those things help.

by acgphx

My apologies as this is not very helpful in the way your seeking. ME is a dog with a memory issue to boot. In any network environment or on any laptop Win2000 Pro. is by far more secure and more stable. Just a piece of advice move the system to 2000and you'll have much less difficulty in the short and long term.

Again I apologize for not providing an answer to your question directly. I've got 3-400 PC's under my watchful eye. Only a fist full have ME and all are earmarked (with just cause)for migration with my client's approval.

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