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by rosalitac

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I have 4 PCs (Win98SE) on a peer-to-peer network and one of them is sharing his connection to Internet and some other business apps. Everything was going well for the last 2 months but yesterday one PC couldn't use Internet, Outlook.... I thought maybe it wasn't on the network anymore but I could still use the network resources (network drives, shared apps and folders...) fine. I then tried the PING command (ex: "ping 192.168.0.1" with an internal network address or "ping PCname") in Dos to "speak" with the other PCs but each time it said "unknown host" (same message when I tried to ping the defective PC from the other computers). I deleted all my network components in Network Neighbourhood (TCP-IP and NetBeui protocols, Microsoft network and shared printers/files service), then reinstalled them and reinstalled the shared connection client but it didn't change anything. I don't know what to do next. Please help me!

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by egilden

try getting rid of netbaui and changing it to a static internal ip if not allready like that and if all else fails back up the data and format the computer internet connection sharring is not the gretest of usuable internet sharing utillities you may want to look into getting a copy of win2k pro and use sharing through that computer much more stable almost no problems no worries if run correctly or if you are using dsl/cable run it trhough a router (ie. linksys/etc.) there fairly cheap $100-$200 and they work flawlessly
Thanks
Have fun

by rosalitac

I need NetBeui for some apps, I can't use Win2k, and I don't have cable so I can't use a router...

by mphoffar

Manually configuring the IP would be the way to go on this. On the problem machine you'll want to configure it as

IP 192.168.0.9 (mind you the last number cab't be used by another machine, so doing a winipcfg on the other machines might be in order)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.0.1

ICS has a DHCP service that'll hand out IPs (I think you know that already), but the manually configed addresses should override anything that'll want to push.

This also, could be something as simple as bad port on the hub or a nic going bad on you. Probobly isn't the case, but worth mentioning.

Good luck to you

Mark

by rosalitac

Thanks for your help but I already tried to put a fixed ip but it didn't change anything

by glenmark26

did u isolate the problem.try to use other lancard and maybe your lancard is deffective.OR try to reinstall your operating system.

by rosalitac

I think my lancard is OK because I can access all the network resources (that I think use NetBeui). The problem must be with the TCP-IP protocol.

by rosalitac

I tried something today to determine if the TCP-IP protocol was defective or not: I used the command PING with the loopback address (127.0.0.1) on the PC that can't connect to internet and it worked fine. I tried with the addresses of the others computers but I still had the same response as before: "Unknown host pcname". I tried another command (TRACERT) to retrace the route the packets take but I had this message: "Impossible to resolve the system name pcname". I can't afford to format the system and reinstall all the apps so someone please help me.

by fcrammond

If you have pci try removeing the nic from windows setup, down the machine move the nic from one slot to another one and reinstall nic. This worked for me.

Faye

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