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by mbsystemsinc

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Seemed like a simple problem. Took over a 9 station W98 peer network and need to get this working ASAP.

New NAS device only accepts TCP/IP. 4 machines can ping other stations by IP address, but not by name, therefore they cannot connect to the network shared drive.

Here's what I've done.
1) Re-installed NIC drivers.
2) Replaced NIC cards.
3) Re-installed W98 on workstations.
4) Upgraded IE to 5.5
5) Blew out IP stack and network and re-installed.

Does anyone have any other thoughts?

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by slacker

Try placing an lmhosts file in the windows and/or system32 directories. It's been a while since I worked with win98 I can't remember which directory but anyhow, there should be a lmhosts.sam file in the right directory. If you just search for it and replace it with the new one you will have it in the right place.
The file itself is pretty simple Just type in the IP Address hit TAB and type in the IP address. The file should have the IP's and Names of all the machines on the network and be copied to all of the machines. you need to reboot so the OS will look for the file and register them into its own WINS database.
Hope this helps.

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