How to speed up recognition of computer on net?

There are times when I know other computers (for example my XP laptop) on
my home network can see my windows98 SE computer, because I can dbl-click
on My Network Places then dbl-click say the Sharedocs icon for the
Windows98 machine and see all the files in Sharedocs. However, when I go
to the Windows 98 machine and go to Network Neighborhood and dbl-click on
the same XP Laptop, it will say "The computer or sharename could not be
found...".

After a period of time Windows must do a network scan and then I'm on the
network. My question: Is there a message or something that will have
Windows98 go and immediately poll the network and recognize the XP
computer?

While this "not recognizing Computer or sharename" is going on I can run an
IP scan app (SoftPerfect Network Scanner) on both machines and all the IP
addresses show up! If the IP scanner is seeing the computer why isn't
Windows recognizing it at that time?


TYIA

"T. Duprex" <tduprexATlandmark.net> wrote in message
news:Xns98E962A152F48pinger@207.46.248.16...
| There are times when I know other computers (for example my XP laptop) on
| my home network can see my windows98 SE computer, because I can dbl-click
| on My Network Places then dbl-click say the Sharedocs icon for the
| Windows98 machine and see all the files in Sharedocs. However, when I go
| to the Windows 98 machine and go to Network Neighborhood and dbl-click on
| the same XP Laptop, it will say "The computer or sharename could not be
| found...".
|
| After a period of time Windows must do a network scan and then I'm on the
| network. My question: Is there a message or something that will have
| Windows98 go and immediately poll the network and recognize the XP
| computer?
|
| While this "not recognizing Computer or sharename" is going on I can run
an
| IP scan app (SoftPerfect Network Scanner) on both machines and all the IP
| addresses show up! If the IP scanner is seeing the computer why isn't
| Windows recognizing it at that time?
|
|
| TYIA

Here are a few helpful KBs from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210327/en-us - Manually Populating Network
Neighborhood with Static Entries for Browsing

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158474/en-us - Windows TCP/IP Registry
Entries

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/122900/en-us - Can't Use Periods in DNS Host
Names

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169790/en-us - How to Troubleshoot Basic
TCP/IP Problems

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193878/en-us - TCP/IP Host Name Resolution
Takes a Long Time on PPTP Connection

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242000/en-us - Windows 98 Clients Not
Registered with Dynamic DNS

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180094/en-us - How to write an Lmhosts file
for domain validation and other name resolution issues

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137856/en-us - Windows Does Not Parse
LMHOSTS File with DNS Enabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233193/en-us - LMHOSTS File Referenced in
#INCLUDE Is Not Parsed at Startup by Windows 95/98 Clients

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