From: "Gary Britt" 

Could UPnP cause some of this?  Did you make sure that UPnP is turned off
on your router so the XP machines can't take turns adjusting the settings
of the router?  XP seems to like it if all machines go to the internet
through one central machine.  That's not the way I like it, but seems to be
XP's preference.  Do you have simple file sharing turned off on all the XP
machines?

I don't know if any of the above are relevant to your problem or not, but
these are things I've encountered on our very small peer network at home,
that is comprised of basically 1 Win98 machine, 1 Win2K machine, and 1 XP
Pro SP2 machine.

Gary

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>
> Man I thought it was me.
>
> At work shares come and go.  Before we started using XP, our Software
> team used to copy files back and forth among shared directories.  Now
> that doesn't work reliably.  Today the shares are here, tomorrow they're
> not.  And Outlook prevents the emailing of the files, so we are actually
> back to sneaker net (using burned CD-ROM's instead of floppies).
>
> It is as if Microsoft wants us to stop development.
>
>  /m
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:33:56 -0400, "Frank Haber"

> wrote:
>
> >(And Rich's grandmother wears Army boots.)
> >
> >I'm still displeased with the erratic and mushy discovery of new machines
on a
> >peer net containing one or more SP2 machines, with or without NETBEUI.
I'm
> >also displeased with the fugitive and slow detection of dragondrop
deletes,
> >renames, copys and moves.  "My network places" has
become somebody else's
bad
> >joke, as computers and shares appear and disappear, except of course for
every
> >ftp site I've ever been to, and for "my files on the account
I don't have
on
> >MSN.com."  Pfui.
> >
> >Disabling 885520 seems to help some, or maybe I'm deluded.  Yes, I've
applied
> >Geo.'s ZoneMap/range patch, and disabling the Feb 8 thing still seems to
help.
> >Comments?
> >
> >I admit banging files around an ever-changing collection of machines with
no
> >server isn't a target market.  Or is it?  Vertical database programs, at
least
> >older ones, do lots of this, right?  You guys who share videos at home
must
> >have hit this, too.
> >
> >It's enough to make me love Samba (g).
>

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