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Windows NT4 Gripe Answer

This machine was an isolated free agent for years. Somewhere along the line I read an article about shutting down NT services that aren't needed, and since it was a stand-alone machine, I turned off the Browser Service. This is required to discover other entities on a LAN.

You might be thinking that it was my fault, not NT's.

But why is Network Neighborhood so stupid? Doesn't it know it depends on the Browser service? Can't it tell that the browser service is not running?  And why is it so mute? At the very least, can't it log an error or warning that is visible with the NT event viewer? There was none.

Also, I still don't know why the Windows 98 machine could see only one of the two shared directories on the problem NT workstation machine. This happened to me again a couple days later from the same Windows 98 machine looking at shares on another NT machine on my lan. In this case it saw 7 out of 8 shared directories. Beats me.