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W2K peer-to-peer network - nothing in My Network Places

A group of novices (self included) setting up a peer-to-peer network of 10 computers running W2K Professional. 9 are connected via hub to a 10th, effectively the server. All are communicating successfully with a modem on the 10th. Nothing appears in My Network Places on any computer except the 10th, which can see only itself. The most urgent problem is to set up a print server.

What should happen with DNS on a peer-to-peer network? I'm not aware of any DNS running on the 10th computer but the others are set to use it as a DNS server.

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Sorry, but I really don't think this is the problem - actually I'm sure that's not the problem.

The connection limit for 2K Pro only refers to Windows networking connections - drive and printer sharing connections. A web server on Win2K pro can have 1000 connections at the same time, with no problem.

Browsing is also not affected by this - when someone is in your network neighbourhood, you don't have a connection to them, and they don't have a connection to you. All it means is that you have learned about their name somehow (from broadcasts, from WINS, from a different machine that is the master browser, etc). I have a Win2K Pro on my desktop with 80 items in my Network Neighbourhood.

anseris, have you tried sharing a printer and making connections to it? As I aluded to before, just because someone is not in Network Places, doesn't mean this won't work. It's more important that TCP/IP networking is working, and that you have proper names and passwords and permissions to make a connection.
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re. JammyPak, where ya been?

I've been around! Don't worry, it's not like I've never heard of a star network before! It's just that it's something that you read in a textbook as a newbie and then it never affects your life again. Anseris admitted to being a novice, but Pizza was giving him a hard time over trivial symantics - and he was incorrect - so I felt the need to point it out.

Of course, none of this is helping out anseris - how's it going, anseris?
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Yes, apologies for the delay - it's been hectic round here and a bit of a challenge working with several people with different ideas. At any rate all the computers are now seeing each other and printing via the network (but wait for someone to change it).

Bits and pieces of various comments have been helpful (also for matters other than the printer) so I am splitting the points.

Thanks for all contributions.

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