Find a way to browse which PC is the master browser, see if it is shifting around. You may want to set one up as master.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Are you manually assigning IPs or are you using DHCP? > There must be only one active source for DHCP on a LAN. You can use more > but only if each one is serving IPs for different private IP address > ranges. A DHCP source must be always on, or be turned on and ready before > the systems it's assigning IPs to are turned on. So if your router is the > DHCP source and you turn it off, your computers, printers etc can lose > track of one another. > Another method of not manually assigning IPs on each individual computer > or other devices is with a BOOTP server. From a central source you can > assign IP addresses to MAC addresses. 'Course you then need a BOOTP server > process running on an anways or first on computer, or a router/modem with > BOOTP capability - and you get to type in a bunch of MAC addresses. > For my little LAN I manually set the printer's IP addresses but let the > internet router use DHCP to assign IPs to the computers since I'm not > currently doing any file sharing among them. > I also set the printers to high numbered addresses like 192.168.0.186 and > 192.168.0.192 so that the DHCP won't do stupid things like assigning a > computer the same IP as a printer. It starts at 192.168.0.2 and increments > the last number up from there. > In my experience with Windows and networking (going back to version 3.0), > Windows has an issue with forgetting where printers are when they have > dynamically assigned IP addresses. Newer versions of Windows have a > "dynamic" network printer option that's supposed to get around that but I > haven't tried it. Setting a fixed IP and installing drivers for each > printer on each computer works and stays working because it's not allowed > to be altered by the whims of software. > > > > From: Rick Lair <r...@superiorroll.com> > To: Emc Users <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 7:47 AM > Subject: [Emc-users] Way OT: Cannot see Workgroup Computers > > In know this is way off topic, but if anybody would possibly know, I'm > sure they are floating around here somewhere, > > We have a small network here at the shop, roughly a dozen PC's and 4 > CNC's ( my linuxcnc builds) that are all networked together, using a > workgroup type setup, not a domain. Most of the time everything works > fine, but randomly ( right now) when you try to look at one of the other > workgroup computers, there is nothing there. On my wheezy machine I > clicked on the "Network" selection, and then clicked on the "Windows > Network" link, and there is nothing there. So I went back to XP machine, > and went and clicked "View Workgroup Computers", and a popup box comes > up after about 10 seconds that says " The list of servers for this > workgroup is currently unavailable". On both machines, I can access the > internet just fine, I pinged the wheezy machine from my XP machine, and > everything looks fine there, so what could possibly cause it not > see/display the other PC's in the network managers of either machine? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
