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Computers don't see ea. other w/ switch.

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by eusi 1 view

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I have two desktop PCs with Win ME (Gateway) and Win 98 (Dell) on them connected to a Gateway Laptop (Win 98) with your FS108 Switch and Cat5 cables. The Win ME computer can see the laptop and itself but all other computers can only see themselves. The computers can only ping themselves. The machine with Win ME cannot ping the Gateway Laptop. It just says that the estimation host was unreachable. The Dell has a Netgear NIC and the other two machines have 3Com Nics. I have printers shared on theDell and Win ME machine. All computers have the same workgroup name and I even put in an IP address for the two Win98 machines and subnet masks but that did not help.
I get the 100 LED on the computers and lights on the switch but I do not see activity on the switch.
I eventually want to share a dialup connection between these computers as well as printers. Please advice. Thanks in advance.

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by ann777

You've created an IP address and subnet mask in the same network? Have you created shres on all the computers?

Make sure File and printer sharing is enabled and create shares. If the computers are not set to share anything, they will not appear in Network Neighborhood.

My home network is setup similar to yours; most of my NICs are 3com, but I have one NetGear. In order for the computer with the NetGear nic to participate on my network, I've had to set it for 10-mbit manually. I don't know why, but that's the only way it'll work. -- the 3coms' are fine with Auto and they work at 100mbit. Everything Internet wise is 10-mbit because the router downgrades it (I'm using dsl at home).

You will also need to install ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) at some point, but your first priority should be to get everything to work on your internal network. A "shared" modem connection, is going to be EXTREMELY SLOW. Good luck.

by ann777

Also, if your are using a true "switch" and not a hub, then make sure that the ports on the switch are not programmed for separate VLAN (virtual LANs).... make sure that all your computers are on the same network ip address range.

by curacao_dejavu

1. the message "destination host unreachable "typically means that the 2 pc's are not on the same subnetmasks (for home usually 255.255.255.0).
2. install file and printer sharing on all pc's and also netbeui.
3. windows me has some quirks to get networking done properly.

The best site for help on networking and internetconnection sharing I know of is at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto.html.

success.

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