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| Thread ID: 21368 | 2002-06-24 04:29:00 | ICQ better networking system than win2000! | Chris Wilson (431) | Press F1 |
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| 56879 | 2002-06-24 04:29:00 | ICQ is better networking software than win2000!!! Many thanks to those who helped Me and Erin with the network problem we still haven't fixed with the WIN2000 machines. We still haven't sorted the problems, but the workaround is to say the least amusing! we worked 30hours (last week) straight trying to get this one machine to network on win2000, and only got internet access via company gateway, All other machine were resonably straight forward. they all see eachother, and share all the resourses that they are supposed too share. All sorts of problems, basicly this machine was not going to co-operate with the concept of networking in any other way, except for spotting the internet gateway, and doing internet type stuff perfectly. Our solution??? ICQ becomes our tempary networking software, because windoze sucks! ICQ file transfers between the machines go through internally at 100Mb/sec. No other methord of sharing files works, indeed the %^%^% machine (machine called Erin) wont acknowledge the networks exsistance. It gives the network the bird 3 hours after we reformatt and rebuild, and has done this twice now It'll do till we can tear down the machine, which is now in constant use, and we are just about peeing ourselves at they solution we found! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 56880 | 2002-06-25 00:05:00 | How Many Computers do u have in your network. Windows 2K has a limit of 10. So if thats the 11th machine it won't be seen. In our network properties are all the protocols identical?? | Kiwi (555) | ||
| 56881 | 2002-06-25 00:56:00 | All network properties are the same on all machines 3 prmanant machines "erin"(email, graphics and layout) "john" (this is the gateway to the internet, it is also a workstation) and "office" (adminaistrative tasks, uses email, and word alot) 1 laptop that comes and goes also we have replaced network card on "erin' the problem machine, no solution we have replaced network cable, no solution we have reformatted, and rebuilt twice, no solution, the second time with with a differant copy of W2k, still no solution, aprt from 3 hours of joy, till it desides that networking isn't its thing, and refuses to see anything anywhere, except of course the internet Unless on the unlikely event that someone can say.. "o that, just change this and it'l work" and it actually does, the next step is to toss W2k, and try win98, which will be fine for the work Erin does on her self named machine. |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 56882 | 2002-06-25 05:20:00 | The fact that it works "for 3 hours" shows that it can work. It must be your fault. ]:) It can't possibly be Microsoft's fault --- read the terms of the guarantee that you agreed to when you installed the software. Are you using DHCP? I would be inclined to turn it off and have fixed IP addresses for each machine, and a HOSTS or LMHOSTS file (whatever MS use) on each. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 56883 | 2002-06-25 05:40:00 | Graham, we tried fixed IP, we found "erin" to be at one particular IP 198.162.0.188 (or something), so we fixed it there "John" the gateway was 198.162.0.1 (of course) still we had weird problems.. we tried pinging each machine, and "erin" was invisable yet still could get full internet access through John the gateway....... Hosts file???? tell me more, i don't quite know what you mean by that. How do we do this? |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 56884 | 2002-06-25 10:52:00 | I have a win2k machine that has no trouble accessing win98se machines. How can i set it up so that the 98 machines can access the shared folders that I have? i seem to have had trouble in this area. Brendon |
nzporscheboy (603) | ||
| 56885 | 2002-06-25 12:14:00 | A friend had a problem with 2 Win 98 machines. 1 could see 2, 2 couldn't see 1. Problem there was on 2 they automatically hit cancel on the login screen. Once I logged in we found the problem - 1 had been set to require a password to access resources - cancelling out on login meant no password whilst 2 didn't require passwords. It could be that Erin is blameless and the "fault" lies in one of the other machines. No idea if this is your problem but on John check out Control Panel; Network; Access Control (or similar) Also, internal networks should be 192.168.x.x (not 198.162.x.x) My subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 56886 | 2002-06-25 12:25:00 | If you want Win98 to access the Win2k machine you have to add a Win98 user as a user on the Win2k machine as well. The Win2k machine will only allow users that are allowed on that machine. | Kame Krazee (498) | ||
| 56887 | 2002-06-25 13:16:00 | Thanks Heather for pointing the IP thing out, i always get those numbers muddled, but i made sure at the time by copying the numbers from the gateway that insisted it should be 192.168.0.1 Erin decided to be 192.168.0.218 (i just found the note in my address book) We'll have a look at "Control Panel; Network; Access Control (or similar)" when the next work bindge begins, but for the moment the network must be used as is. I so wish that that your observation on IP addresses had found our problem!! |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 56888 | 2002-06-25 22:02:00 | Another thing.... Last year we set up a Win 2K network (Knowledge a little rusty here - it was last year)... BUT... I seem to remember something about setting up a RANGE of addresses on the server. If, for some reason, you set up such a range it is entirely possible that 218 just happens to be outside it. My suggestion would be to go back to your gateway machine and check such things. |
Heather P (163) | ||
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