The Fabulous Disappearing Network
I am having a minor problem (its more of an inconvienence than a problem) with a number of PC's losing sight of the network via their network neighborhood or explorer. They can however see everything on the network if you use UNC and hit a specific drive or machine. Its been worked around at the moment by creating shortcuts to the shared resources but the natives are getting restless. Change is not a welcome thing around here. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.
I'll try to give some background on hardware/software: The pc's with the problem are running win95 on a few and win98 on others. All are running TCP/IP over 100BT ethernet. The two servers on the network are a Dell 4400 running w2k and a DECalpha 5000 running NT4. Switches are two cisco 2900 series and an asante intrastack. The network has approximately 60 workstations on it (mac and pc) and the routing is being done from the w2k server. This is a recent change due to the death of our old router so I wondered if the problem might lie there, but I'm really not sure. Thanks.