I hate computers

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I've been mucking around for hours tonight trying to get Windows file sharing to work between the three computers here, and all I've managed to do is break it worse. (The one thing that used to work was that the winxp machine could see the win95 machine (not vice versa), but now nobody can see anybody.) Grr.
What distressing is I have no idea even what to try from this point, besides setting the workgroup name back and seeing if that returns it to the old broken state.

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What distresses me about my interactions with Windows is that I don't know how to get diagnostics on how SMB or whatever damnable protocol we're dealing with here is failing. "net use /verbose" would be nice. Someone said he ended up diagnosing these problems by putting a Linux box on the network and telling smbclient to give him the scoop.