[dba-Tech] WorkGroup problem

Interesting. Most often, all four of my boxes are running 24/7, but I will shut them all down and reboot in various orders to see what occurs. Nothing is mission-critical so I am free to play around. Thanks for the suggestion.

A.

----- Original Message ----
From: Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 11:17:25 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WorkGroup problem

On 11/2/06, artful at rogers.com <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> I have four boxes on my home network. All of them were set up in a workgroup, but for some reason my main box cannot see two of the machines, and those two machines cannot see the other two machines. They all have the same workgroup name and they all have a user called Arthur with the same password.
>
> Would it perhaps work if I removed the workgroup from all four boxes, or simply changed its name, or anything else. I really need to copy about 30 GB to one of the machines that I cannot see yet.

I've noticed with my 2 pcs (desktop & laptop) is that sometimes the
boot order of the PCs will make a difference on visibility.

It seems that for my laptop to see the desktop, the desktop has to be
booted first, sometimes. Other times it works just fine. No rhyme nor
reason.

Try rebooting in different orders and see if that makes a difference.