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Networking an "ME" laptop, and an "XP" desktop.
This may sound facetious, but it isn't. After spending about three days
where my XP desktop could see, but not access, my ME laptop, and my ME laptop would, 90% of the time, refuse to browse the network at all (and 10% of the time, browse the network but not actually see the desktop); and after having run right the way through Carrie Holzman's excellent recommendations page; and having scoured the net for other fixes, I eventually found the ultimate networking fix for a Toshiba Satellite 1715 CDS - I installed XP over the top. Result? Immediate and working, network access. Can't ask for more than that ;-) Tim |
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Networking an "ME" laptop, and an "XP" desktop.
"Tim" wrote in message ... This may sound facetious, but it isn't. After spending about three days where my XP desktop could see, but not access, my ME laptop, and my ME laptop would, 90% of the time, refuse to browse the network at all (and 10% of the time, browse the network but not actually see the desktop); and after having run right the way through Carrie Holzman's excellent recommendations page; and having scoured the net for other fixes, I eventually found the ultimate networking fix for a Toshiba Satellite 1715 CDS - I installed XP over the top. Result? Immediate and working, network access. Can't ask for more than that ;-) Tim Yeah, I installed XP on my laptop 2 years ago for just that same reason. However I recently have networked an ME computer to two XP computers and it went like clockwork. Go figure. I think networking is more an art than a science and it also depends on how a computer feels. Anyway, XP is a much better OS than ME. Dick Kistler |
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Networking an "ME" laptop, and an "XP" desktop.
In article , Tim says...
This may sound facetious, but it isn't. After spending about three days where my XP desktop could see, but not access, my ME laptop, and my ME laptop would, 90% of the time, refuse to browse the network at all (and 10% of the time, browse the network but not actually see the desktop); and after having run right the way through Carrie Holzman's excellent recommendations page; and having scoured the net for other fixes, I eventually found the ultimate networking fix for a Toshiba Satellite 1715 CDS - I installed XP over the top. Result? Immediate and working, network access. Can't ask for more than that Yah, but...your original problem probably related to which computer thought it was the 'browse master'. In any mix of Windows XP and Windows Me, you almost always should go to "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" on the Windows Me computer and disable the 'browse master' setting. Heck, I do that on my little two-computer network where both computers are running Windows Me; I disable it on the computer which is on less often than the other. -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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"N. Miller" wrote in message om... In article , Tim says... This may sound facetious, but it isn't. After spending about three days where my XP desktop could see, but not access, my ME laptop, and my ME laptop would, 90% of the time, refuse to browse the network at all (and 10% of the time, browse the network but not actually see the desktop); and after having run right the way through Carrie Holzman's excellent recommendations page; and having scoured the net for other fixes, I eventually found the ultimate networking fix for a Toshiba Satellite 1715 CDS - I installed XP over the top. Result? Immediate and working, network access. Can't ask for more than that Yah, but...your original problem probably related to which computer thought it was the 'browse master'. In any mix of Windows XP and Windows Me, you almost always should go to "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" on the Windows Me computer and disable the 'browse master' setting. Heck, I do that on my little two-computer network where both computers are running Windows Me; I disable it on the computer which is on less often than the other. I thought that the systems could figure out who should be the browse master on their own. I haven't messed with that setting on my system, and as of yet haven't had a problem. Wired: 1 XP Home, 1 ME Wireless: 1 XP Home. On a ptp network setting a computer to be the browse master would require it to be on, wouldn't it. That would be damned inconvienient. Dick Kistler -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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In article , Dick Kistler says...
"N. Miller" wrote in message om... In article , Tim says... This may sound facetious, but it isn't. After spending about three days where my XP desktop could see, but not access, my ME laptop, and my ME laptop would, 90% of the time, refuse to browse the network at all (and 10% of the time, browse the network but not actually see the desktop); and after having run right the way through Carrie Holzman's excellent recommendations page; and having scoured the net for other fixes, I eventually found the ultimate networking fix for a Toshiba Satellite 1715 CDS - I installed XP over the top. Result? Immediate and working, network access. Can't ask for more than that Yah, but...your original problem probably related to which computer thought it was the 'browse master'. In any mix of Windows XP and Windows Me, you almost always should go to "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" on the Windows Me computer and disable the 'browse master' setting. Heck, I do that on my little two-computer network where both computers are running Windows Me; I disable it on the computer which is on less often than the other. I thought that the systems could figure out who should be the browse master on their own. I haven't messed with that setting on my system, and as of yet haven't had a problem. Wired: 1 XP Home, 1 ME Wireless: 1 XP Home. On a ptp network setting a computer to be the browse master would require it to be on, wouldn't it. That would be damned inconvienient. If it works in automatic mode, don't mess with it. But in a case like mine, were one is on most of the time anyway, it doesn't hurt. But in a mix of Windows XP and Windows Me, it seems that the XP insists on being the browse master, but if the Me machine is on more often, it forgets to look. Or something like that. I can't speak from personal experience about the XP / Me combo, though... -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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