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Win 98 & Win 2 K in workgroup

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by farooqui66

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Hello,

I just set up a small workgroup network behind a cable router with two platforms running. The Win 98 box can see and transfer files to/from the Win 2 boxes but they cannot see the Win 98 machine. What did I do wrong? The router acts as my DHCP server and hands out the internal IP addresses so everyone can see (ping) the router but Win 2 K boxes cannot seem to get across it to the Win 98 boxes. TCP/IP protocols are set to dynamic IP. All boxes can get out to the internet so it does notseem to be a LAN/WAN issue within the router. So where did I mess up. Upgrading the Win98 box to Win 2 K is not an option because of proprietary apps that run in Win 98 only. Any pointers will be appreciated. If you need any other info, please post here or email me at farooqui@home.com.

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by mikel~t

Do you have file sharing enabled on the win98 machine? In Network Neighborhood's properties, click on the File Sharing Button at the bottom of the window, and make sure that the box to share files off the computer is selected.

If it is selected,try adding the Netbeui protocol to all of the machines. It's a great protocol for local networks and file transfers.

hope this helps.

Mike

by farooqui66

Mike,
I have accepted your answer since it is correct. However, I had enabled file and printer sharing from the network neighborhood properties on the Win 98 box. This had not helped. I had also tried using the NETBUI protocol and this was what hadallowed me the one way traffic (to/from the Win 98 box but not to/from the Win 2 K boxes). Plus I tried other possible solutions but nothing seemed to be working. I then did a fresh install of Win 98 into a different directory, did not load all the old programs again, enabled NETBUI on all machines and now am able to get two traffic. All machines can now see (ping) each other as well. What was the error?... I dunno...but all's well in the network now and that's all I care about.
Thanks for your help.
Sohail Farooqui
QA Analyst.

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