Can't ping properly ....

check your gateway, it's trying to access internet to find the adress

If you don't have anything providing IP addresses then i think they are sharing files using some other protocol like netbeui. Try winipcfg to find out if the network cards have an IP address assigned to them. If not you are going to have to assign statis ip addresses.

Hi,
Sorry. A bit wrong info that i gave.
Corrections:
Well, i have 3 pc's. Name A, B and C. All these pc's are using OS Win98. They are connected to each other with network cards and a hub. All IP is automatic, don't set anything for Gateway andDNS, and no firewall. Using Norton Antivirus 2003.

They can access each other, share files, and etc. A can ping B and C but with popup Dial Up, but can't ping itself(popup Dial Up too). While B and C can't ping A. Error message: Unknown Host .
By the way, pc name for A is Alien Nation.

Pls help. I been trying to solve it for a while, and unsuccessfull.
By the way, with Winipcfg, i can see that there's IP address for the A network card.

Thanks.

First of all, to turn off "Dial-Up Pop-Ups", go to Internet Explorer, then Tools--> Internet Options--> Connections, and click on "Never dial a connection" ratio button.

Second, You should understand that you have different naming conventions andmechanism in "Microsoft Networking" (used for file sharing and neighboors browsing), and legacy TCP/IP applications (like ping, ftp, telnet, etc.).

1. "Microsoft Networking" uses NetBIOS, names can contain space and can be long. Windows uses broadcasts to find NetBIOS names in the network, so, it will work without any configuration required.

2. TCP/IP uses more conservative names. You can't use certain symbols in names ("Space" is one of them). IP uses 2 mechanisms to resolve names - local "hosts" file or DNS. And when you try to use name in "ping" command, system checks local "hosts" file to get IP address of workstaion you are trying to reach, and since it's not there, it try to dial to ISP to get address from them.

The solutionis simple. First of all I advice to configure your workstations with static IP addresses, since you have only 2 PCs. Second, you should edit c:\windows\hosts file to configure name-to-address resolution. You may just create file and copy it to all PCs.

If you will have problem performing these steps, don't hesitate to send me e-mail.

Good luck,

there are several ways to trouble shoot this problem. use the ipconfig /all, arp, tracert, and nslookup to try and trouble shoot the network problem. these work in DOS

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