Tracy,

I don't think it is really security; it is for organizational purposes when browsing the "Network Neighborhood."

Machines from different workgroups can connect to shared resources, you just need to know the name of the computer you want to connect to.

Ounis, to see what I mean, from the Win98 machine you can go to Start|Run and type \\servername (use your server's name, of course), and you will should the server, regardless of the workgroup you have given to the Windows 98 machine.

>It is designed to be this way. It is security. However, with Win98 clients, it is a hetereogenous network.
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>Tracy
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>>I recently installed a windows 2000 as a Domain controller and I named Interabs as a name then I connected two other server as a child domain as a database server and a print server I did not have any problem till I connect through a windows 98 as a client the problem is as follow
>>if I put on windows 98 the workgroup name as interabs I can see the whole network howerver if I put any other name then I cannot browse the network
>>the strange thing I can ping without any problem the only thing I cannot browse the netwrok if the name of the workgroup is different name
>>any help
>>thank you in advance.