Straight from the horse's mouth. Please reply directly to Marsee (address below); DO NOT copy the group, DO NOT copy me!
> Dear User Group Leader: > > Once again, I must say thanks for the great response to our previous > calls for annoyances, gripes, and complaints about Excel, and the Internet, > and other topics. The email we received was useful and gave our > Annoyances books a great head start. > > As you might guess, we have yet another book in the wings--this one > focusing on home networking annoyances. Everything from cabling hassles to > setting up a router to wireless access points to fussing with TCP/IP > settings to installing a shared printer. Whether you've set up a wired > (Ethernet, phoneline, or powerline) or wireless (802.11a, b, or g) > network, merely shared a DSL line, or networked a bunch of PCs and Macs, > feel free to share the annoyances you've encountered along the way. > > If you or any members of your group have home networking annoyances > you'd like to see solved, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "Home Networking > Annoyances" in the subject line. Please note what hardware, software, > and/or service is giving you grief (e.g.: a LinkSys Cable/DSL Router with > 4-Port Switch, SMC's EtherPower II network cards, SBC DSL, Windows XP, > etc.). > > As thanks for sharing, we'll make sure to get copies of "Home Networking > Annoyances" sent to your group shortly after publication. > > . . . > > An example: > > The Annoyance: > I added a new computer to my network, but it doesn't appear in My Network > Places or Network Neighborhood on any of the other computers. The Windows > help files tell you to reboot all the other computers on the network in > order to see the new computer, but there's got to be a better way! > > The Fix: > There is. Assuming your hardware connections are working, and you've > created at least one shared resource on the new computer, you don't have > to reboot the rest of the network to see the new computer. > > Wait twelve minutes. Honest. Could I make that up? Get a cup of coffee, > empty the dishwasher, or change all the burned out light bulbs in the > house. Then open the network folder again, or press F5 to refresh the > display if you didn't close the folder. You should now see the new > computer. > > Why does this happen? The icons in the network folders (My Network Places > and Network Neighborhood) are controlled by a service called the Computer > Browser Service, which browses the network, peers down the pipes > (including the virtual pipes of wireless connections), and checks to see > who's on board. In a peer-to-peer network, the computers elect one of > their own as a browser master using a complicated scheme that involves a > private conversation among the computers (held secretly so you aren't > aware of it and can't control or interfere with it). The browser master > runs the browser service every twelve minutes, and populates the network > folders of all computers on the network with icons representing the > computers it finds. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
