Networking windows 98 2

[betanet]

Hi everyone, can anyone help me with this problem? I have three networked computers; two win 98 and one win95. The main PC has winroute running on it, but I don’t have the administrator password to use the settings, so it’s useless to me. It is now disabled. I have allowed ICS and all PCs can access the Internet, I can ping all PCs but can’t browse the network. I don’t have name resolution. I can only ping using the IP address, not the computer name. This problem has my head in a spin, any suggestions.

 

[edfair]

One would be to add NETBUI to the protocols. May allow you to see the other machines.
And the IP addresses and mask are similar and the workgroup is the same?

Ed Fair
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[betanet]

Thanks Ed, I will give it a try on Monday morning and let you know what happens. Netbui was in the network stack but I deleted it, I am going to delete all the protocols in the stack and re-install the lot from fresh. I didn't install this network so I am working on someone elses mess.

Thanks.

 

[Sierra25]

Another way to do this is by editing a file called hosts on your PC.

In the hosts file you would place the lines as follows..

PCNAME 10.44.54.298
PCNAME2 10.44.54.263

Replace PCNAME with your computers network name, then replace the IP's above with your own IP's of the systems in question.

Sometimes the hosts file has a .sam extension, You need to remove this and just call it hosts

In our enviro we do not have net bui installed on the PC's

The hosts file is just an addition to the DNS system that is on newer PC's.

Hope That Helps

 

[betanet]

Thank you edfair and sierra25 for the help, I managed to get everything working by deleting all the protocols and then re-installing them, I have enabled NETBUI as a safety precaution. The network is all working fine now.
Thanks for the help