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Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the correct board or not for this, but I'm really getting frustrated, and I'm sure it's something easy for someone who knows.
Anyway.. I'm working on some Java software for school, and I'm trying to get the program to run on my 2 machines (one is the MBP, and the other is a windows XP pc), but I'm having trouble having trouble finding one machine from the other (in either direction) because neither can seem to find the hostname of the other.
On my Mac, from the Sharing panel I have set my local hostname to david.local. On my windows box, my hostname is david. I can ping myself on each machine, but when I try to hit the other, the hostname can't be found.
Please help me figure this out. I know it has something to do with the naming, because I gotten this to work a couple of years ago for another project. Only.. it's been a while and I hadn't had to do it since then, so I've forgotten what I had to do back then to get it working.
Any help with be greatly appreciated!
David

Hi Rick,
I changed the Mac so it would be on Mshome (yes, I left it as the default in windows.. lol.)
Rebooted both.. no dice.
A question about this though.. can I still connect to other networks? I take my computer to school, and I have never had to change this before, and everything had worked smoothly.
Oh! That reminds me. I can connect to shared folders on my Windows machine from my Mac with the Connect to Server from Finder. I do smb://david/<shared folder> and it all worked out just fine, without the workgroup being set. (Still works now, btw)
Thanks,

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