I have a network at my apartment (college) with 1 windows me, 3 windows 98, 1 windows 95, 1 windows xp, and one Mac OS 9.1. My roommate bought windows xp for his sony laptop, which was an upgrade from windows 2000 professional. to connect all these computers I have an 8 port linksys router and DSL for an internet service. The problem is this, when my roommate upgraded from 2000 to XP it caused everyone not able to get to see each other on the network. If his computer is Off we can see everyone but when he turns on his computer it becomes the master browser and we can't see everyone again. Is there something that I can do in windows XP or to all the other machines that will make them able to see each other? Someone was talking about lmhost.sam file but that didn't really do anything at all. Is there something in the registry that I can disable his computer from becoming the master browser?

Same problem. I still didn't figure it out, but you can try this: launch regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters, and change the "Maintainserverlist" value to "No". Then this service won't start because of error, however, i'm still able to browse the network, and others can too.

Hi Daniel, I don't know if this will help as I don't know the difference between XP Pro and XP Home. But when I set up my home network (1 other PC runnin XP, 2 others runnin win 98) the network wizard automatically assigned a firewall that prevented network sharing. We connect to the net similar to you as we use a Netgear Router with DSL service. The problem happened during the network setup when I answered the wizard question about each PC connecting to the internet using their own connection. From that point on all computers were blocked. I had to go into the properties of the network and disable the firewall that XP installed. You probably don't have a need for it, because your router probably already has a firewall. Anyway, just thought I would offer this.

Thanks...That did help...I should of looked there first (stupid me)...Daniel Lindsey

Seems like there are two seperate problems here. I have the problem where I cannot browse xp from 2000 or visa versa, and my event log says that the browser has forced an election. I am not running (nor has XP set up) an internal firewall in the xp box, and I too have a sony laptop upgraded to XP. I spent 3 hours on the phone with MS support, to no avail (yet). Seems like one problem that happens is a problem with browsing through the internal XP firewall (not my problem, but many seem to have this problem) Seems like the other problem has to do with some sort of odd browser interaction that results in mixed networks. Perhaps with XP changing over to active directory services, and 2000 offering some sort of master browser to active directory service, something gets messed up. Any help as to problem #2 would be apprec. I have 4 machines on a workgroup, 1 - 98SE, 2 - 2000 pro and 1 xp pro. Everybody can work together EXCEPT XP. While the other computers sometimes see XP, they cannot connect, and visa versa.