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| Thread ID: 34423 | 2003-06-12 10:50:00 | Win 98 / 95 network | Heather P (163) | Press F1 |
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| 152053 | 2003-06-12 10:50:00 | I have an older compaq pentium that needed a reinstall. Decided to put Win 95 on it for speed. Trouble was - there was absolutely no way I could get it to see 2 Win 98 machines on the same network. It could see and ping itself but not the other two. The other 2 were also equally adament that it didn't exist. Finally, after a couple of reinstalls I gave up and put Win 98 on. All now works as it should. Anyone got any ideas if this is a normal reaction for Win 95? Are there some extra settings somewhere that need setting on the older OS? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 152054 | 2003-06-12 23:53:00 | yeah it dos happen a bit. there are a few things to do. see here for starters (www.wown.info) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 152055 | 2003-06-13 00:31:00 | Thanks Tweak'e - it's a relief to know that it's a known problem not just me. Glancing down the list I see that although I changed the protocols and eliminated the extras I probably didn't reinforce it by declaring them "default". But the more likely cause was the 3Com network card as follows: * Latest* NIC drivers from manufacturer (especially Realtek & 3Com) A little academic now as I fixed it by using Win 98. Page is bookmarked in case I feel energetic enough to hook a 486 into the network (if I can think of a good enough reason to need to use a 486 that is). |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 152056 | 2003-06-13 05:12:00 | Have you completed the pressf1 faq on networking?? I would do that all first before doing anything at that other link. Check it out in the FAQ's section. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 152057 | 2003-06-13 05:39:00 | Powa, Been running a network here for a number of years, have also had training in Novell and Microsoft networks and worked with them. Admittedly I can get things wrong when I rely totally on memory but I just could not find anything that was wrong - and I was comparing settings with the other two machines as a double check. Finally gave up and went to Win 98 and it worked. The other link gave me a real clue as to where the problem was. That's the trouble with computers - always something new to learn... |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 152058 | 2003-06-13 05:43:00 | It's probably academic now Heather, seeing that you have gone to Win98 satifactorily. I had a great long saga trying to get a Win95 machine networked to a Win98 using TCP/IP as the protocol when I was still on dial-up. There were no problems with NetBeui, the machines could see each other and transfer files using that. In the end, it seemed to come down to having dialup adapter already installed. Starting all over again to set up the network from scratch and installing dialup last of all seemed to be the trick that enabled the TCP/IP protocol to work. I dont know whether any of this is relevant to your situation, but it shows things arent quite as straight forward as some would have us believe. :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 152059 | 2003-06-13 08:51:00 | >ut it shows things arent quite as straight forward as some would have us believe . didn't i say networking was an art ?? lol ;-) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
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