Many versions of windows = network fail?

[[AK]Nuts]

You sure? I bring my work laptop (member of work domain) and I have numerous shared drives that I connect to while at home on my home network. You don't have to join a workgroup to share. Just when you share you'll have to provide the right computer/user + password.

[[AK]StitchJones]

You sure? I bring my work laptop (member of work domain) and I have numerous shared drives that I connect to while at home on my home network. You don't have to join a workgroup to share. Just when you share you'll have to provide the right computer/user + password.

I just was puttering around with a few VM's. I changed workgroups around and for those that did not have Computer Browser running, did not see each other with a scan. When I fired it up, it showed them.
Let me add one footnote to my earlier comment. It would be 'Best Practice' to have all of the computers in the same workgroup, but it is not a requirement 'Unless you are on WindowsME' :-P

[[AK]Bribo]

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62047

You Windows guys are so precious. Gives me the warm fuzzies.

[[AK]Swae]

By the way, I never did get this to work. I was able to 'see' all the computers from my system, but couldn't actually access any of them. None of our systems are password protected, the IPs all matched up, and they are all set to access the same workgroup. Not sure what the issue is, and I gave up from frustration. I may seek more advice from you guys another day.