Here’s a dandy of a problem that some of you may be having. The picture above shows an ipconfig reading. To obtain this, do the following: click on “start”, click on “run”, type “cmd”(XP or Win2k) or “command”(win 9x), at the black dos box type “ipconfig /all” . Here is the problem someone was having, which took me a while to figure out. They have some shares that are mapped and some shared printers that they connect to. The problem was that they took the laptop home and the node type was changed to the ole’ “unknown.” This interferred with sharing via names. I could ping the ip address, but not the name. Strange. So i manually changed the node type this way. I went to “start”, clicked on “run”, entered “regedit” (the registry editor), and clicked “ok.” This brought up the registry editor window. …There i went to this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters . The DhcpNodeType was set to 2 or something and i wanted it to be 8 for “hybrid.” This enables broadcast lookup. All you need to know is that if you change that to 8, it will now see shares via names. Hope that helps - email if it doesn’t or if you are having a different name/ip/share issue. Happy computing!
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