XP Filesharing works with IP's but not computer names.

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Published on 2010-05-06T20:45:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 20:48 UTC
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I recently ran into a problem where I was setting up a 5 person LAN. I enabled filesharing on the main computer and wanted to allow the other 4 computers to have access. 2 computers were able to access \expample without any issues. 1 computer would only connect if I uses the ip address \x.x.x.x\data. The third computer was able to access \example but required the user to login every time they tried to access the share. Why is there such inconsistency in these connections?

All 5 computers are Windows XP Professional.

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