XP Pro WORKGROUPS

Question

I'm a technician and I've had an interesting reoccurance with most of my new Dell XP Pro systems.  When I network the systems by joining them to a workgroup, I cannot see any of the workgroup computers in network places, I can't browse to them, or even map to them via their computer name.  The only resolution that I have found is to map to them via their IP address.  Once I do that, I can at least connect to their shared drives and printers.   Anybody else had these issues?  I was wondering if the new Dell XP Pro systems are getting bad Windows builds.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

NemesisDB · Answer

I've had it happen on a few computers before. I never found the implementation to be overly reliable and usually just end up mapping a network drive to the IP address if it's a share i'll be using a lot.

bfazio · Answer

I tried that, but I want to make sure I am doign it right.  The shared drive is in a computer with the IP address of 192.168.2.104,   how do you recommend I go about maping right to that.  I can ping it and get a response as well as tracert it also.   Thanks   Brian

NemesisDB · Answer

thought you said you could view the share via IP? If so, just open an explorer windows, click tools, map network drive. type in the IP address \\192.168.0.5 for instance and pick a drive letter (and reconnect at login). If it can really see the computer as sharing the folder, this will work.

Obviously the host machine will need a static IP for this to work well.

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