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

Newly networked computers need to use arp to discover it's neighbors. It will use arp calls directed toward any other NIC that will respond and wait for that response using wildcards. If you right-click network neighborhood and do a find computer and enter the computer name it will do a directed search using arp, NetBios, etc and will update the arp cache in a much shorter time.

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Same problem. PC's show up fine in Net Hood on my 2 Win2k Machines but not on the 
2 Win98 boxes. The 98's will show up when I search (from Explrer) and when I do a 
"find computer' off right-clicking NetHood. ------- All pc's ping each other okay. 
Did the F5 thing. 98's access the internet as well as other shared folders on LAN 
--- but the 98's just refuse to retain machines - even itself - in the NetHood listing 
- close it - refresh it - reopen it - doesn't matter. Every time I click or double 
click NetHood or even Computers Near Me, I get "Unable to browse the network. The 
Network is not accessible. For more info look in the Help Index at the topic 'Network 
Troubleshooter'. --- and we know what a joke the MS online Troubleshooters all are.

We've got to be overlooking some registry setting or something. Please note --- am 
using DHCP from Cable ISP rules - using "Windows Logon" for Primary Network Logon 
- The tab "Bindings" for the NIC has both TCP/IP and NetBEUI checked - 

Also, all the cable (LEDs) are good, the Pings all work fine, said that already, 
tried rebooting/no dice, tried the Explr Goto bar again - again good they show up 
- close Explrr - reopen NetHood - not there - use "Find Computer" and one by one 
all PC's again show up in search results but they still refuse to patch into the 
NetHood listing -- EVERY SINGLE TIME when I go and doubleclick on the NetHood icon 
it just expands to the "Entire Network" icon, then I doubclick on Entire Network 
it just loses the + sign - sits there - and I don't even get a "Workgroup" icon, 
nothing, --- just the above error message, "Unable to browse the network."





On Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 10:55 pm, Techtony wrote:
>I have a comment about Getting 
>Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:

>
>  Newly networked computers need to use arp to discover it's neighbors. It will 
use 
>arp calls directed toward any other NIC that will respond and wait for that response 
>using wildcards. If you right-click network neighborhood and do a find computer 
and 
>enter the computer name it will do a directed search using arp, NetBios, etc and 
>will update the arp cache in a much shorter time.
>

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