Windows 95/98 Peer-to-Peer

Browsing is often unreliable and tempermental in Win9x, especially without the benefit of a WINS server. You do not say whether or not you can go to Start -> Find and then locate the computer in that manner. If you can, then try the following:

Open up Network Neighborhood on the Win 95 computer. Go to Start -> Find and enter the name of the Win 98 machine. Once found, drag and drop the machine into Network Neighborhood. The machine should remain after reboot, and you should be able to browse and map drives to it.

#1 is a good idea..
Also make sure that the workgroup name on both machines is the same (Including Case)

I have seen this problem with my home network several times when friends bring their machines over.. I can find them with the search and I can map to them but they may not show up in nethood.

try start|run and enter\\computername

Good Luck..

This is not the registry key you asked for ,but I have another option,Go to my computer and right click the drive and then select sharing and follw the onscreen instructions.The DSL configuration may be why you are not seeing the computer from WIN95.

I wonder if you just tried a machine name hit..like \\mywin98 from the 95 box.

If this is an external DSL adapter, I would probobly disconnect it from the network and connect to the two PCs via the hub and get those working together first with something like Client for MS networks, your nic and Netbeui installed. If that works and you can see each other, I would suspect that the DSL adpater is letting the NetBEUI out out of the 98 machine and because of the proximity, will see the 95, butwhen the 95 tries the same, it gets lost through the DSL connection instead of going directly to your PC. Of coarse this may be as something simple as having one or both of the NICs set for half deuplex and with the DSL going, the one never sees the other because it's waiting for a spot to jump in.

If this is an external adapter you probobly just want to plug the adapter into the uplink port on your hub and connect the two others into the hub anywhere except next to the uplink port (becausethis is usually a loopback when the crossover is used). You may also want to look for a uplink switch on the hub, this may also cause unidirectonal feeds.

Good luck to you

Mark

Go to Network applet in control panel on the win 98 PC . Check if "file and print sharing for microsoft networks " is in the list .If not then add it ( It will be listed as a service ) . Look for the File and Print Sharing BUTTON at the lower bottomof the Network Window . Click on it and make sure that both File and printer access is enabled . OK / APPLY before exiting and now Go to Find on the start menu and select computer . Type the name of the computer and press "Find now" . If you find the computer you will also be able to see it in NETwork Neighborhood .

Much Luck !!!!

Go to Network applet in control panel on the win 98 PC . Check if "file and print sharing for microsoft networks " is in the list .If not then add it ( It will be listed as a service ) . Look for the File and Print Sharing BUTTON at the lower bottomof the Network Window . Click on it and make sure that both File and printer access is enabled . OK / APPLY before exiting and now oN THE WIN 95 pc , Go to Find on the start menu and select computer . Type the name of the computer and press "Find now" . If you find the computer you will also be able to see it in NETwork Neighborhood .

Much Luck !!!!

what is your primary logon in Neighbour hood properties.. winlogon, Client for microsoft windows network.. try changing and matching the same..if doesnot work.. Try adding file and printer sharing for microsoft networks and changing the values of browse master from automatic to yes or no.

sunit

what is your primary logon in Neighbour hood properties.. winlogon, Client for microsoft windows network.. try changing and matching the same..if doesnot work.. Try adding file and printer sharing for microsoft networks and changing the values of browse master from automatic to yes or no.

sunit

I personally like to keep my network properties as clean as possible. I would remove NETBEUI and then setup LMHOSTS files on both PC's. Something simple like:
192.168.1.1 W95_Machine_Name #pre
192.168.1.2 W98_Machine_Name #pre

Brian

From what you've said I can't see any reason you can't just add IPX on the Network.
With only two PC's you wouldn't see any performance degredation.
You could set up a gateway on you win98 PC to allow the win95 PC to surf the net if you wanted.LMHOST is also a nice easy solution as someone pointed out

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