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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 9:31 am Post subject:

I have a guy who keeps phoning me with network problems, and he is a friend of the boss, so I am obligated to help him. He has two computers, one with Win2K, and with Win98SE. The Win98 box is hooked up to cable internet, with is then shared to the Win2k machine over a TCP/IP network. He had the network installed by a proffesional, and it was working great until last week.

The Win98 machine is kinda old, and I guess the hard drive died. He replaced the drive and reinstalled everything, but now his network doesn't work. The Win2K machine should be set up right, as it was never down, so it has to a problem in the Win98 Config. He can ping each machine from the other, and it works fine, but he can't access either computer from the other, and his internet connection is not being shared.

I am assuming that the Win98 box has two nic's, one for the internet, and one for the network. The internet connection works fine on the Win98 machine, so that nic is set up correctly. The other nic is assigned an IP of 192.168.0.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. DNS is disabled as is Wins resolution. The win2k machine has the same settings only with an IP of 192.168.0.2. The workgroup name is the same for each machine.

I don't know a whole lot about networking, and I can't think of anything else to chck. Any idea's???

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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

this could just be my opinion:

I'd reverse the connection, put the cable modem on the win2k machine (if possible) and then share over to the 98 machine

the ICS client on win2k is newer and works alot better

then you just need to make the win98 machine think it's getting it's connection from a network by running the internet connection wizard again, and telling the 98SE box that it is getting it's connection through a lan. don't forget to uncheck the "autodetect proxy" box on the last page of the ICW when you run it (the 98 box doesn't even have to know it's a victim of ICS)

I always enable DNS on my machines even though I don't use it for my network

you need to tell the machine on the "sharing" end of the connection that it's gateway is the 192.168.x.x address of the other machine as well

are these machines networked through a hub/switch or is it a cross connect cable

I had one of my 98se machines setup as the master in my ICS setup once, and had nothing but problems with it.

once I switched over to having the win2k machine be the leader, I never had any problems again ( except with an individual 98SE machine when 98 screws up)

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2001 10:20 am Post subject:

This displays the problem of tech support over the phone. I am not sure why the Win98SE box has the cable connection or anything else like that. I also don't know if he is using a hub, or if it is just a crossover cable. I'll have to talk to him again. The real problem is the network itself though. Why can he ping the other machine, but not see it in network neighbourhood. He has the C Drive of the Win98 Machine mapped to the Win2K machine, and the connection can't be made to the hard drive.

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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2001 8:21 pm Post subject:

Make sure that your workgroups match exactly. Also if you don't have the Guest account open(Win2K disables Guest by default) and there is no account that matchs the Username and Password he uses to log into the Win98 PC he will have problems talking to the Win2K box. Although for ICS he doesn't need an account. Also make sure you either have a static IP set for the Win98 PC or it is set to get all of it's IP configuration from the DHCP which is turned on when using ICS on the Win2K box.

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Butt Sniffer Joined: 24 Oct 2000 Posts: 1545 Location: USA

Another thing to look at is the IRQ's that the nic's are using. If one is sharing an IRQ with USB that might be a problem. Just one more thing to look at, Humdood...

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