From: "Frank Haber" 

I mean that XP is slow in recognizing *any* change in available machines on
the peer LAN. The Snap! is quite fast.  George gave me a patch for a
RemoteComputer\NameSpace hex key that sped up my 2000 machines
dramatically. I haven't tried it on XP - I'm chicken.

NETBEUI is active on all machines here, and needs to be: there are a couple
of NETBEUI-only WFWG machines we actually use sometimes.  I've not tried
the Win2000 NETBEUI on XP, which a couple of people have recommended I try.

And I don't think SMB is hot except when the  Samba on the Snap! is at
work, no?  There are seldom any Linux machines with active human and
console on this net.  The XP machine is fast enough opening folders and
copying files to/from any machine.  It's just slow recognizing new shares,
and *very* slow recognizing new, or just-powered-on but previously known
machines.  All machine, volume and share names are LanMan-ish, <9chars
USASCII alphanumeric, caps only - and unique.

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