From: "Geo." 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4141ac9f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> This is all peer, no domains within miles.  These nets are thrown together
> static-ip, mostly, with any dns relayed through a SOHO router to an ISP, when
> the LAN is on the net, which isn't often.  No WINS, either.  I'd use NETBEUI
> to help, except the XP one is pretty sluggish, and using the 2000 stack
> (recommended by some) leads to hangs at awkward times.

IPX should be sufficient to allow local browsing via broadcast. I think
even with tcp there is some local segment broadcasting that goes on and
allows machines to browse each other as I constantly see the kids machine
here and we are all IP.

> I have registry patches to force IsBrowseMaster, and that helps.  I
> religiously clear router tables, and reboot lots, but these are ad hoc
> collections of machines, slapped together under severe time pressure.  Spiky
> RFI from kilowatts of HMI and Xenon lighting also makes life miserable from
> the hardware side.

Well if you know the machine name then instead of trying to browse to it
just click start/run and type

\\machinename

> Do you have any idea how *LONG* two or three XP reboots takes when the
network
> underpinnings have changed 100% from last time?

I used to but I've managed to forget. 

Geo.

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