Powerbook G3 (mainstreet) with OSX 10.2 - bogus Smaba entities?

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JesseKnows

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I have a Powerbook G3 Series (Mainstreet) with 256MB RAM. Runs a new install of OSX 10.2 with all Apple updates.
When I try to Connect to Server, I see machines with IP addresses off the subnet: my subnet on my home router is 192.168.2.xxx (255.255.255.0). I see "servers" at 192.168.166.4 (address from memory to give as example; is the exact address meaningful?).
I tried the command line to have Samba report on servers it can see (following a web page on Windows Networking for OSX) and it showed these bogus "servers". From mamory I'd say that one of them was the master browser, which is why I can't browse servers from the Mac and must "Connect to Server" find shared files.
I'd appreciate help in finding out what's happening.
 
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InlineFive

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Do you lack a firewall and/or a secured wireless network (if applicable)? Is this your home network?
 
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JesseKnows

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This is a home network, with many other Windows machines. All served by a Belkin router/firewall. No Windows machine can see such machines. An eMac with OSX 10.4 doesn't show such ghost machines in the browser. I did not try the command line on the eMac.

There is wireless with WEP.

In any event, 192.168.xx.xx is non-routable, so even if a machine with a fixed IP of 192.168.166.4 somehow attached itself to my network, it should not be visible from a 192.168.2.xx subnet.
 
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