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by brennie

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Dear Sir/Madam,
I get your netmail and perhaps you may be able to help me.
I am the IT administrator for Zenith Fuel Systems, Inc. and have come up with a perplexing problem.
We have a NT Server network (using TCP/IP) which is our used for most of our company mfg. systems. We have about 35 PC's attached to this network, most being either Windows 95 or 98. There are 10-15 printers attached to these PC's used as shared Network Printers.
We also have a small Windows for Workgroup network (3 PC's running NT) that is solely used by our engineering department. This network runs NetBui and is also attached to the NT Server network. When trying to access the printers on the NT Server, these 3 PC's cannot see the printers at all using Windows Explorer, even though the printers are shared. I can't seem to get the NT network displayed, it only shows the WFW network.
The NT network drives that these 3 PC's use are displayed and available for their use, but not the printers. These PC's are all NT clients, whereas the other PC's on the NT network are Windows 95 or 98. Is there some magic configuration I'm missing when trying to get these WFW PC's connected to be able to see the NT network shared printers ????
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give me.

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by Member 31445484

hi,
i believe your problem could depend by one of the following reasons:
- You could have shared your printers for domain users instead of everyone, so only authenticated domain users see the printers.
- Do u see shared folders on the server? if not check if you installed netbeui on the server.
hope this can help
Fabio

by culizard

Since you said that the larger network has about 50 hosts on it, I assume that you don't have both netbeui and TCP/IP on it.

Install TCP/IP on the smaller network, making sure your addresses are in the same subnet as the larger network.

Makesure the shares on the printers are either accessable to everyone, or create a trust between the large and small networks so that you don't run into any issues with the permissions.

Not to be rude, but it sounds like you need to get your network restructured... is there any particular reason you're running two seperate networks? I can't tell from your initial question if you have a domain setup or not... For what its worth, unless you have some compelling reason not to, you should setup adomain and get all your users authenticating with a central source. Get rid of netbeui and go with straight TCP/IP, it'll make your life a lot easier. =) good luck

by mckaytech

If your peer-to-peer network (the 'WFW' network) has a different workgroup name from that of the other workgroup or domain, that's your problem. Computers from one workgroup will not see resources from another workgroup.

Probably the best approach is to join the engineering group to the domain. Since all their workstations are NT, you can secure any data on the workstations from being visible across the network if that is your concern.

paul

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