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by clima

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I have a cable router and two PC's connected to it. one is w2k the other is w98. I would like to share printers and files. I was told that I should clone the mac address of my w2k PC nic card, and put it on the w98 pc so I can see one and other. Is this possible?

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by erikdr

a) Theoretically, with solely certain types of NIC's.
b) It's probably not needed for you.

In order to have both PC's see each other, they should have compatible TCP/IP adresses and a medium that connects. If both are linked to the cable router (and a hub presumably), the medium is there. Adresses can be e.g. 192.168.100.x.

The MAC address issue is solely there when a cable connection (e.g. router) is meant for ONE and one PC only. In that case, cloning the MAC is fraudulous.
However, though the router can connect to only one PC (the W2K), still the other PC can access Internet too. Setup the W2K machine as a gateway with two NIC's, use Internet Connection Sharing which is part of W2KPro, and wham! - W98 too can see the Net as longas W2K is turned on.

Hope this helps,

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