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Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange


  • Subject: Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange
  • From: "automatedhomeuk" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:50:16 -0000


> I think that the name resolution uses WINS and that WINS is a bit
> tighter on XP.  It'd going to be to do with which machine thinks it
> is the WINS server and is prepared to do a name to IP address
> translation.  If no machine offers to do that, then you will get
> what you are seeing.

I recently turned off DHCP server on my Win2K box and turned it on on
my router instead.  Would this have anything to do with it?  How do I
find out which machine is "WINS Server"?

Thanks

M.





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