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WAN help on isdn needed

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by redhatquik

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we set up an isdn link with two cisco 770 routers they connect fine. one
machine is a win2k pro the other end is a windows 95 machine. from the win2k
we can get to the shared files on the win 95 but not the other way around.
The network is set upbasic peer to peer user name is set and we can ping
the win2k machine but need some help to get it to show it's shared files!
this isdn is a direct point to point (no internet)
any help I'm pullin my last few hairs out!

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by timwalsh

Since you are using routers, you have to be using TCP/IP (NetBEUI isn't routable). Win9x in general doesn't do a good job of browsing (and often can't at all) over TCP/IP without access to WINS.

A solution for your problem (assuming accounts andshare permissions are set up properly) is to directly map the required shares (Windows Explorer | Tools menu | Map Network Drive) using the UNC format (\\servername (or IP address)\sharename. If you can ping the Win2K computer, (based on the above assumptions) you should be able to directly map shares, even if you can't browse them.

Hope this solves your problem.

by redhatquik

Your insight was greatly appriciated! We ended up having to replace the Win95a computer on the remote site with an XP machine when I plugged in my laptop and it worked. But I still had to search and set it up UNC Thanks

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