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

 FH> This is progress?

sounds like normal NETBIOS networking functions to me... this is one reason
why NETBIOS is such a chatty networking protocol...

)\/(ark