RE: XP sharing issue

Hi jmv,
I wanted to know if you ever recieved help with your problem because i have
a similar problem and need some help. i want to share documents on my laptop
with my collegues at work (so on the network at my job) have any ideas????
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"jmv" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a local network sharing a gateway for internet access.
> On this network resides:
> PC1- 1 Laptop using Win 2003
> PC2- 1 dekstop with WinXP Pro
>
> I am having a real difficult time viewing the shared documents of PC2 from
> PC1. Both PC1 and PC2 use the same WORKGROUP.
> Both PC1 and PC2 have DNS IPs provided by the gateway.
> Sometimes I am able to Map a drive on PC1 for a shared dir residing on PC1.
> However the only way I am able to do this is to explicitly use the IP address
> of PC2, i.e: \\\192.168.2.55\shareddir
>
> Browsing the MS network from PC1 does not work, i.e. I cannot view the
> shared drives of PC2.
>
> Does anyone have a clue on this?
>
> Thanks