Re: Changed from a software to a hardware firewall...now NETWORK PLACES won't display computer names


"xwray" <jim.wray@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Duane Arnold wrote:
>> You have Win 2K machines and what are you trying to do here that the FW
>> appliance is most likely not preventing? Are you trying to share
>> resources
>> between machines?
>>
>> And please don't give me War and Peace on your explanation.
>>
>> Duane :)
>
> Thanks for responding. I'm just trying to do exactly what I was able
> to do before...open Network places and see the computers identified by
> their machine name. No changes otherwise.

What's the topology? A hardware firewall shouldn't be doing anything to
local network connections, and their name resolution should not depend on
the Internet.

I'd be thinking along the lines of local security settings, perhaps due to a
W2k update?

-Russ.


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