I have a comment about Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:

I had this problem with Windows 95/98 machines hooked up to an NT 4.0 server. Doesn't "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" have to be a service listed in the Networks applet of the computer your trying to see in Network Neighborhood? That seemed to fix the problem for me.

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I am just a beginner at this networking stuff myself, but i believe the answer to your question is No. file and print sharing is not a requirement to "see" other nodes on your network. However, you must be in the same workgroup. That much I believe is true. The file and print sharing selection is only necessary to transfer or access data from other puters or nodes in your workgroup or domain. As long as your connected within a peer to peer workgroup or a client/server domain, and have the proper topigraphical connections..ie hub...you should "see" the other nodes in the network...(this is my best guess), Hope its helpful !


On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 1:57 pm, Mark Meredith wrote:
>I have a comment about Getting
>Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:

>
>I had this problem with Windows 95/98 machines hooked up to an NT 4.0 server.
>Doesn't "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" have to be a service listed
>in the Networks applet of the computer your trying to see in Network Neighborhood?
>
>That seemed to fix the problem for me.
>

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Try this: From the Start-Run box, type "net use \\the workgroup name\the new computer's id name" without the quotes, of course. You might want to Ping (also from the Run box) each destination IP address from the problem computer first, to see if you get a reply back.

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If you want the Nodes to be visible within Network Neigborhood of Windows 2000 machines, the File and Print Sharing Service must be loaded on each PC.


On Sunday, August 26, 2001 at 4:56 am, steve l. wrote:
>I am just a beginner at this networking stuff myself, but i believe the answer to
>your question is No. file and print sharing is not a requirement to "see" other
>nodes on your network. However, you must be in the same workgroup. That much I believe
>is true. The file and print sharing selection is only necessary to transfer or access
>data from other puters or nodes in your workgroup or domain. As long as your connected
>within a peer to peer workgroup or a client/server domain, and have the proper topigraphical
>connections..ie hub...you should "see" the other nodes in the network...(this is
>my best guess), Hope its helpful !

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