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by bbasata

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I have a question is in reference to a Win98 PC on a LAN. Recently, it is completely unable to communicate with the other computers in the LAN.
I say "almost" because it does succeed in getting an IP from the DHCP server at startup. Otherwise, I cannot ping any other machines or use network apps. BTW, ping localhost does work, and I've tried using a different NIC (same result), using a known good & available static IP
(same result), and using a different computer (this DOES work fine).So my guess is the problem is on the software side.

I think the problem started when I once removed TCP/IP from the Network Control Panel and then added it back again. Being without the Win98 CD on hand and thinking I might have the CAB files onthe hard drive, I pointed Control Panel to C:\windows or c:\windows\system to try to find the needed files, and it proceeded to copy the existing files onto themselves, I think.

After the network problem appeared, I reinstalled Win98 over the existing installation, with no resulting improvement.

Can anyone offer any insight into this problem or any ideas of what else I can try?

Thank you.

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by iffu_hyd

Try to install once again from scratch...WINDOWS 98... if u have time...

Otherwise :
a) see that the IP doesn't match with any other computer on the network....
b) Figure out When did u installed DHCP...., have u defined any static IP addresses on any of the machines prior to installing DHCP..
c) Check the subnet mask of the computer, and see that it is logging in correctly in the domain u want....

hope this helps.. Good luck
irfan

by theburbs

Have you tried a static IP v. DHCP?

If so, have you set up a default gateway, named the host and domain in the TCP/IP configuration?

Have you assured that the subnet mask offered by the other commenter is correct? Typically this is only necessary in Win9X/ME with static IPs.

Do you use DNS? And if so, have you correctly aded the DNS IPs?

Do you have shared resources on the other machies that you cna browse?

Are the other machines 98? Or are they NT/2000/XP? If the other machines are not 9x/ME then you are often at a disadvantage for some networking capabilities. These OSs were never really designed for networked environments. They have the ability to be configured as such, but it was more of an afterthought.

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