Chuck,
Looks like our mails crossed! ok, I think this is where it gets
difficult & kinda random :( If the desktop can't find the netbios
workgroup, it suggests you may need to look there. It may come down to
completely disabling sharing, rebooting & enabling sharing again to
refresh it (I've never had to do this on XP before, though).
davidt
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:06:01PM -0400, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Using admin credentials on both machines allowed use of the "release"
> and "renew" commands which did exactly what they were supposed to.
> However, the local net is misbehaving exactly as before.
>
> I did try one more local net operation which was to map a directory on
> the laptop to a drive letter on the desktop. You may recall that the
> laptop sees the desktop but can't talk to it. The desktop doesn't even
> see that the laptop exists. When I attempted to map a drive the desktop
> complained that it couldn't complete the command since it couldn't find
> any network (let alone the laptop that's on the network it couldn't find).
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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