Solve : On my home network one computer is not shown?

1.	Solve : On my home network one computer is not shown?
Answer» I have two COMPUTERS in my home network. Both are running Windows XP. One (the HP Pavilion) is running the MEDIA edition and the other (the Dell Optiplex GX-260) is running professional edition. The I have run the network setup wizard on both computers. When I go the My Network Places> Entire Network> Microsoft Windows Network> myhomegroup on either computer the name of the Dell computer is DISPLAYED but the name of the HP computer is not displayed. I can do a search for the HP computer from the Dell computer and it will be found. So I know that it is accessible. At one time, long ago when the predecessor to the Dell was in the network I could see both computers in the WORKGROUP, but one day I noticed that the HP computer had disappeared from the list. So I am thinking that either I did something or I ran a program that did something on the HP computer to prevent it from appearing in the workgroup list. I don't believe that it was anything that I did immediately before I noticed its disappearance; so I have no idea what could have caused it to disappear from the list or how to make it reappear. Has anyone in this forum seen this before? If so, can you tell me what causes this to ccurr and how to fix it?Try this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20094-42-problem-workgroupQuote from: jason2074 on July 30, 2010, 11:09:34 PM Try this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20094-42-problem-workgroup I looked that over and it does not provide me anything that I have not already done, other than setting the workgroup after running the wizard. Since I am not adding a new computer to the network it does not seem apropos to my situation. In actuality the computer that cannot be seen is the one that has been on the network the longest and the one that can be seen is the one that was most recently added. I think that I posed this question in the wrong forum and that it should have been posted in the network forum. I have been looking for a way to remove it from this forum but that must be a power reserved to the moderators. Nor can I see a way to lock it.Probably a 3RD party firewall...Since I am not running a third party firewall on either computer, I doubt that is the case. Please read my other similarly named topic, it contains additional information that might be pertinent to a correct solution to this problem.

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I have two COMPUTERS in my home network. Both are running Windows XP. One (the HP Pavilion) is running the MEDIA edition and the other (the Dell Optiplex GX-260) is running professional edition.
The I have run the network setup wizard on both computers. When I go the My Network Places> Entire Network> Microsoft Windows Network> myhomegroup on either computer the name of the Dell computer is DISPLAYED but the name of the HP computer is not displayed. I can do a search for the HP computer from the Dell computer and it will be found. So I know that it is accessible.
At one time, long ago when the predecessor to the Dell was in the network I could see both computers in the WORKGROUP, but one day I noticed that the HP computer had disappeared from the list. So I am thinking that either I did something or I ran a program that did something on the HP computer to prevent it from appearing in the workgroup list. I don't believe that it was anything that I did immediately before I noticed its disappearance; so I have no idea what could have caused it to disappear from the list or how to make it reappear.
Has anyone in this forum seen this before? If so, can you tell me what causes this to ccurr and how to fix it?Try this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20094-42-problem-workgroupQuote from: jason2074 on July 30, 2010, 11:09:34 PM

Try this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20094-42-problem-workgroup

I looked that over and it does not provide me anything that I have not already done, other than setting the workgroup after running the wizard. Since I am not adding a new computer to the network it does not seem apropos to my situation. In actuality the computer that cannot be seen is the one that has been on the network the longest and the one that can be seen is the one that was most recently added.

I think that I posed this question in the wrong forum and that it should have been posted in the network forum. I have been looking for a way to remove it from this forum but that must be a power reserved to the moderators. Nor can I see a way to lock it.Probably a 3RD party firewall...Since I am not running a third party firewall on either computer, I doubt that is the case.

Please read my other similarly named topic, it contains additional information that might be pertinent to a correct solution to this problem.

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