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No other ideas?!?!

I just checked the node type of another computer, and it too says Unknown. So now both my master browser and another computer that works with everything else both have a node type of unknown. The node type of the offending computer that could not and still can not see all the computers on the network is now unknown after I performed the fix mentioned in that microsoft KB Article to release it from the peer-peer node type.

I am not sure if I am running WINS. I typed did the ipconfig /all from my master browser and i received this. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : CTS-Server Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel® 82562V-2 10/100 Network Con nection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-09-83-77-11 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.100 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::21d:9ff:fe83:7711%5 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1 fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 80-00-F4-9C-9D-1B-C8-69 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e50:8000:f49c:9d1b:c869 IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ffff:ffff:fffd%4 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : :: NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C0-A8-0F-64 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.15.100%2 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Two disturbing facts I have learned doing this are that it is apparently telling me that I do not have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled, which I have checked as "enable always" under the WINS tab, and that for this computer at least, the node type is listed as unknown. I'm not sure what that means. The computer that was originally having all the problems was configured in p-mode, and I followed the instructions in the very useful link given to me by Tripredacus on how to change that, however it did not fix the problem. Help?!?!

File shares are enabled on all computers, and the other 14 computers on the network see each other perfectly. The computers are all in the same workgroup as well. An interesting piece of this is that the offending computer, which is XP Pro, can see 5 of the other computers in the network when I got to "view other computers within workgroup), whereas all of the other computers can't be seen. All of the other computers can be accessed by directly typing in the IP in the "my network places" address bar, such as \\192.168.15.100 . All computers can be pinged from the offending computer as well. There is no central server, since this is a workgroup, so I believe that is technically a peer to peer network. I have forced a computer to be a "server" in that it is always the master browser (through small registry changes) and it has a static IP. I have also enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP for all computers. Since I can ping and directly view computers with knowledge of their IP, it just seems like I'm not recieving updates from the master browser, or the computer is not accepting them. Thank you for trying to help me with this. I have spent a lot of time researching this topic, and this is the last offending computer I just can't figure out. Also of note, I have disable all firewalls and completed uninstalled any trace of norton software on the computer. I also uninstalled and reinstalled all network drivers on the computer as well. Please ask me any more questions that may be of interest.

I have a problem with Windows Networking. Running a computer with Windows XP Pro x86, I am unable to connect to a decently sized workgroup (15 computers) All of the other computers have no problem. The main problem with this connection failure is that I can not see all of the computers in My Network Places. I can always see 5 of the 15 computers, and can access their files. The other computers can be accessed by typing in their direct IP address. Why can't I just have all computers simply show up when I want to view workgroup computers? I feel like this has something to do with NetBIOS but I have enable NetBIOS on all computers and this computer is the only computer that doesn't operate correctly.