[thelist] Networking PCs full stop, was: Networking PC's to Mac's

John Handelaar john at userfrenzy.com
Tue Nov 27 08:57:35 CST 2001


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> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [thelist] Networking PCs full stop, was: Networking
> PC's to Mac's
> 
> kristina
> 
> I need to mention one more thing that _may_ prevent the two machines
> from talking to one another. They need to belong to the same workgroup.
> 
> Huh, what's a workgroup?
> 
> It basically gives a name to the network that the computers are
> connected to.

Oh - and one other thing.  Neither the workgroup
nor the name of any individual machine may contain
a space if you want them to be able reliably to
see each other.

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