Network Browsing Dillema

[3aces]

i have 3 machines in my house 2 laptops and one media centre machine

Laptop 1 = A

Laptop 2 = B

Media Centre = C

basically C is always on and contains my whole music collection, and both A + B can use all the shared folders from it, but when im browsing the network i can see and machine, but when laptop A is switched on i can see the all the machines in the network, but as soon as i switch A of, then im disconnected from the network and i cant see anything.....but i can get access to the system in question but doing "\\X\D$"

any ideas on why one computer has to be in order for me to brose the network??

[jondercik]

Network neighborhood never has been a reliable way to see machines, if you dont like typing the commands out each time to see shares make a batch file to do it.

Jim

[3aces]

thing is, i have a wifi achos 604, and it doesnt seem to find any computers on my network, unless the laptop is on, which is very annoying!!!

[cluberti]

That means the laptop is probably the master browser, and you should make the media center machine a master browser instead.

On both laptops, set the following registry values:

Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters

Value: MaintainServerList

Data: No

Value: IsDomainBrowser

Data: No

Value: IsMasterBrowser

Data: No

On the Media Center machine, set those registry values to Yes, and restart the computer browser and netlogon services on all 3 machines for the settings to take effect (this can take a bit of time, but should work shortly after service restart).

[3aces]

excleent thanks alot..........ill give that a shot tongiht

[Deman]

I think you can also force a browser election by entering net stop workstation, and then net start workstation

[3aces]

right i've tried both solutions and with the 1st one, my computer refused to start the services up again and then when i switched my laptop on, the services started back up again, and the second method ddint work either!!

now what to do?????? :S