From: Mike '/m' 


That's about what we are experiencing at work when an XP box is brought
online.  XP does not appear to network all that well.

 /m



On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:25:33 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>I'm noticing that slapping 4-8 XP computers together, plain old peer-peer, TCP
>only, no fiddling with browse masters or NETBEUI, is becoming increasingly
>painful.  Even with firewalls off, if the machines have never seen each other,
>or, worse, have seen each other in different combinations the previous week,
>it can take a couple of reboots and FORTY-FIVE MINUTES to have a network.
>
>This is progress?

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