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Don’t you hate when this happens?

Yeah, tell me this never happened to you:

You go the My Network Places or Network Neighborhood. You’re looking for that shared folder on your other computer. You know — the one with the mp3s that you want to burn onto a CD that you have cued up on this computer.

You can’t see the folder. You can’t even see the computer.

Dang.
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What’s a Workgroup?

Here’s another mistake that will kill your attempt at networking two or more Windows PCs together:

The workgroup name is different on one or more of the PCs in your network.

Fine. What’s a workgroup?
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“What All Networks Have in Common”

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