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from: John Beckett
date: 2005-07-14 10:35:18
subject: Re: AFter WU XPhome cannot connect to share by computername

From: John Beckett 

"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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