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Not seeing Win98se machines in workgroup

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by teke

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A Win98 systen was recently replaced by a new XP(home) system in a peer 2 peer network of 4 other win98se machines. Now the XP system can see only one of the other machines. I've hard coated the Ips (192.168.1.X) I've set it to "auto") Ive released and renewed from the command prompt. I've even redone the cable ends to another standard. I can ping through to all machines. The others (except the one) cannot see back to the XP either. I'm ready to try another protocol, but we use ICS for internetaccess.
Any thoughts????

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by wa chege

And NETBEUI protocal on all the computers and see what happens,including XP dont remove the exciting once

by teke

I've discovered that the other machine that I could see had a "new" NIC. I replaced the other NICs and changed the cable ends. All is now well. Apparently the XP system ddoesn't have as great a tolerance for older hardware.

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