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by shanghai sam

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Hi Guy's. We have a network at work consisting of 6 systems connected to a 10/100 netgear switch & a netgear ISDN router. The networks using TCP/IP and assigning the address dynamically.
Uptill recently alls been fine, but then we couldn't browse the network. The internet connection worked fine on all machines.
I eventually fixed the problem by checking the settings one by one on the systems, which 're-built' the database on one machine.
After that everything was ok.
My questions are:- why is this happening & can I prevent this in future, would altering the registry and assigning a 'Master browser' prevent this, and finally if I installed netbeui as well would this work as a 'backup'?
TIA
Glenn

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by les

What systems are you running? In such a small environment you are probably better off with static ip addressing.

Setup a wins server. It solves all hassles. I have encountered network problems and been unable to browse certain computers in a local lan for no apparent reason with all machines connected OK.
If you use winnt or win2k enable wins. Else stick an old box in the network and runup linux with samba as a master browser with wins configured.

Else setup dns. Populate your dns serverwith all the names and ip's of your local hosts and set all machines to do lookups via dns.

hope this helps.

by shortstuff

Many thanks for the reply, at present we're using 98SE on the systems. Can I setup wins on this & is it difficult?
Other than that, is setting up a DNS server a complicated process? Are there any good tutorials/articles you'd recommend?
Once again tia
Glenn

by santoshjdevadiga

best way would be use static ip and enter the ip address and the hostnames of the machines in the host file under windows of all the machines since u have a less no. of pcs. no need to go for wins or dns.

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