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networking Win 95 clients w/ Win 2k clie

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by markymambo

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I have a Win 2k pro pc networked thoug ha DSL router to two Win 98 pc's and using file and print sharing and DHCP throuh the router and everthing works fine. I moved the Win 2K pc into an office with 2 Win 95 PC's and they cannot communicate. They all belong to the same workgroup. They are all announced on the hub. I cannot ping any of the pc's from one another. The 2 win 95 Pc's do not have IP addresses and the Win 2k gives one to itself after not finding a DHCP server. ANY answers? I tried assigning an IP oone address diferent from the Win 2k and still nothing. I Figure that if I connect all to a DHCP router , I will gain connectivity...REAL world.

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by Member 35772270

Your win95 systems have to be setup to share file or print services to get a ping from them. Install netbeui and share something.

by markymambo

all pc's are running TCP/IP and all are using file and print sharing under the the same workgroup.

by vinnyd

For TCP/IP networks to work, each computer must have a unique IP address.

Either they must be manually set or get the IP address from a DHCP server.

If your DSL Router has DHCP in it, then each computer should be getting an IP address from it.

So do these steps.

1. Check the DHCP server and make sure that it is setup to give out enough IP addresses. If you can not connect to it do step 2.

2. Go into each computer and assign an IP address including the Win 2000 computer (just because it assigns an IP address does not mean it is valid. You are getting a loop back address on Win 2000.)

Use IP addresses in the range of 192.168.5.1 thru 192.168.5.250.

Use a sub net mask of 255.255.255.0

Then your network should work.Now you just have to figure out why your computers are not getting IP addresses from the DSL Router.

by markymambo

Worked fine. I just had a subnet of 255.255.0.0 and that did not work. Also, I had to make sure that all of the TCP/IP bindings were all correct.

by markymambo

All PC's are connected through a hub and no longer connected through a DHCP router. In addition, I have reset all of the workgroup names several times. I ahve even tried to manually set the Ip Addresses and Masks.

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