From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Hp Printer worked after I put an entry into the hosts file for it. I guess
MS really 'secured' my XP Home network with the update


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> The share works fine with another XP Pro computer
>
> The My Computer  Computer Name   is xyzaspire
>
> I put an entry in the hosts file on the XP Home machine so I can continue
> to access the share by computer name. Doing a browse in 'Map the Network
> drive' with the XP Home pc shows nothing under the workgroup. This worked
> prior to the Windows Update this morning. The XP Home pc is the only one
> that's given any problems and it's the only XP Home pc that I have to test
> with as both the laptop and media pc are XP Pro.
>
> I was going to say that it wasn't a biggie but I just discovered that my
> wireless all-in-one HP psc 2510 can't be accessed by the XP Home computer
> although the HP4l on the wireless Linksys print server still works . I'm
> beginning to hate this month's Windows Update. All the pc s use the same
> version of Zone Alarm Pro for the firewalls
>
>
> "John Beckett" 
wrote in message
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news::
>>> "tempstorage on 'aspire( 192.x.x.x)'   - the xyz is
missing from the
>>> computer name as it should say "tempstorage on
'xyzaspire(192.x.x.x)'
>>> I'm
>>> not sure what's happening here
>>
>> I don't have a fix, but a computer has two names: its normal FQDN and its
>> NetBIOS name (which is normally the same). To view:
>>
>> My Computer, right-click, Properties, Computer Name, Change, More.
>>
>> John
>>
>
>

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