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March 6, 2002 at 01:19 PM
bveazey

Messy W98 lan: need advice

by bveazey . Updated 24 years, 4 months ago

This 6 machine office LAN looks very Frankensteinish…
1.My gut reaction is to reformat all of the hard drives and reinstall Windows 98 to regain continuity among the machines. (Good Idea?)
2.The N.I.C.s are all different brands and ages, and I’mnot sure that I can round up all of the driver-disks. (Are new, matching N.I.C.s needed?)
3.A Sales and Inventory Database is shared amoung the machines: Will changing the IP adresses, Protocals, computer ID and Workgroup names affect this shared program upon it’s reinstalation?
Thanks, bveazey

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