>Hi everyone:
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>I have a peer to peer ethernet network connection, with two computer's having xp home and the third computer running ME. Everything functions great, but when I restart the computers, I need to do them in a specific order. The ME computer needs to be turned on first, and then the XP computers. Then the ME computer is logged into first once all computers reach the login screen, and then the XP computers need to be logged in afterwards. This works most of the time, but is time consuming in an office when I am turning on all of the computers (I have to keep walking back and forth between offices), and there are times when it doesn't work.
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>If I don't follow the above procedure, and sometimes when I do, when I try to connect to the ME computer from the XP computer, I get an error message saying that the network connection cannot be restored. However, I don't have any problems accessing the XP computer from the ME computer. If it doesn't work, I need to shut down all computers and then go through the procedure again.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks a lot.
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>Paul

hi Paul,

may be u can work around the problem.

first do not use dynamic ip address.

use static ip address.

the open the lmhosts.sam in notepad found in the windows\system32\drivers\etc

add the static ipaddress followed by the netbios names of the systems.
add all the computer ip address and netbios names found on the network.

eg:

192.168.0.25 XP1
192.168.0.27 Me
may be this will correct the problems.

suhas hegde