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    hashimkhan Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Apr 22, 2012, 03:41 AM
    How to access laptop by name
    I have my laptop connected to my office network and it is working fine but I can not see any other system in my network neighborhood nor I can access them by their names I can only access them with IP address. One of the system I can ping but can not even access it by the IP address
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    Apr 24, 2012, 04:47 PM
    Make sure that you have "network discovery" set to "on".

    If you are using XP your workgroup name needs to be the same as the other PCs
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