Greetings list--

I have recently encountered a browsing problem with a small home
peer-to-peer
network.  It consists of three computers (Win98SE, and two WinXP Pro), a
switch, and a cable modem.  All three computers used to be able to see
shared
folders and share a common printer attached to one of the XP machines,
which,
with two network cards, acted as the Internet Connection Sharing computer.
The Windows 98 computer will now access only the one XP computer (the
non-Internet sharing one), but is still able to browse the web and get
e-mail
through the sharing computer.  When one double-clicks the icon for the
sharing
computer or tries to connect to a shared printer on it, one is prompted for
a
password to access \\<computer name>\IPC$.  A number of system services
are protected by the OS logging on as NT AUTHORITY\Network Services,
an 'account' which does have a password identified by 15 dots.
Is this situation connected?

I have run the network setup wizard on all machines, which is how they were
set up in the first place.  This has had no effect.

Any ideas short of building a new XP box?  (The other XP box has no trouble
accessing and using the Internet Connection Sharing computer's resources.)

Paul A. Shippert
Library Media Specialist
Margaret Brent Middle School
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