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| Thread ID: 38430 | 2003-10-07 02:46:00 | TIP: Networking Win XP Pro to Win 98SE | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 180995 | 2003-10-07 02:46:00 | I had problems trying to network an XP Pro system to 2 Win 98SE computers, ethernet cards, cat5 cable, a switch and Dynalink RTA 220 router, using TCP/IP protocol with netbios enabled. Previously when all 3 computers had Win98SE, I used NetBEUI for the network file sharing, netbios disabled for security, and TCP/IP unbound from the network. XP does not have NetBEUI installed, but it is on the XP CD in Valueadd\MSFT\NET\Netbeui folder. So, if anyone else experiences similar problems, then NetBEUI is the way to go for network file sharing, it is so easy to get up and going. There is a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on how to install NetBEUI on Windows XP here (support.microsoft.com) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 180996 | 2003-10-07 03:11:00 | Excellent tip. Good old Netbeui seems to the forgotten protocol in recent years. I find it invaluable in a peer-to-peer network scenario. When used for file sharing it's faster than TCP/IP too. |
b1naryb0y (3) | ||
| 180997 | 2003-10-07 03:19:00 | after useing netbeui for a while i ended up switching to ipx/spx (which xp has by default) due to hassles with netbeui taking ages to find the other pc's on the lan. also netbeui tends to flood the network a bit so its not a good choice if you have lots of pc's on the lan. downside is ipx is a little tricker to set up (need to assign frame type and enable netbios over ipx). with either protocol it gets around any hassles with firewalls and tweaked tcp/ip settings. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 180998 | 2003-10-07 06:34:00 | Do you have any idea where one can find info regarding assigning frames, etc ... using ipx. As well as other info using the ipx protocol? Would be nice to try it. - aNtzy |
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