nuke pave

I am stumped and hope someone else has seen this. Any help given will be
greatly appreciated. Here are the symptoms.

One HP P4 windows XP home machine and one Win98se generic machine are hooked
up to a Linksys BESFR41, which is in turn connected to a cable modem.
BEFSR41 just put in to replace a faulty netgear router, and no other changes
have been made. Previously mapped drives no longer able to be accessed from
the remote machines. The win 98 machine can see the Win XP machine in
network neighborhood but the XP box says that the workgroup is unavailable.

I have:

Attempted to remap folders to different drive letters but can't access
network shares.


R/R TCP/IP on each machine
tried accessing machines via FTP, http, and windows explorer. Each time
being told that the resource is unavailable.

R/R file and print sharing, no results.

I have double checked all of my network stack settings.

I can ping each machineby I.P.

Each machine is accessing the internet and drawing I.P.'s nicely from the
router.

Thanks again for any input.

philippe l. balmanno

Rule this out.
Static or Dynamic IPs on either machine?
If you have Static IPs go to the router's admin page and make sure those IPs
are in it's range.
Router's page is viewed through IE default address of 192.168.1.1.

philippe l. balmanno

Make sure you're using the same net mask. 255.255.255.? also.

nuke pave

All of the settings are dynamic, assigned by router.

geow

My guess is that is the problem. 2 things. Manually assign IP's to all
machines, and make entries into your Hosts files to translate specific IP's
to machine names.You can get DNS IP's from the router status page. Make sure
USE LMHOSTS LOOKUP is turned on under WINS tab of advanced TCP/IP settings.

leythos

In article <8Vpdb.3748$hp5.3210@fed1read04>, nojunk@mail.com says...


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If you directly replaced the old router, without changing ANYTHING on
the computers, and it was working before, then do the following:

1) Connect WAN port on Linksys to cable modem
2) Connect port #2 to XP box
3) Connect port #3 to 98 box

Turn power on on the Linksys - HOLD THE RED RESET button for 30 seconds
and release

Turn power on on the computers

Turn power on on the cable modem

One each computer:

Start/Run/CMD (or command in 98)/enter

in XP - IPCONFIG (tell us what you get - 192.168.1.100 (or 101)

in 98 - WINIPCFG (should be 192.168.1.101 or 100)

if you don't get an IP of 192.168.1.10X then the router is not enabled
for DHCP - resetting to defaults should have enabled this.

If you get an IP, but Google.com does not come up, then it could be a
DNS issue or you need to cycle power on the Linksys one more time.

If you still can't get to the internet - open 192.168.1.1 and go to the
STATUS page, tell us what IP/DNS numbers you have.

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nuke pave

Thanks for your input but please re read my original post. No problem
getting to Internet.
Further, I am getting the correct I.P. range assigned by DHCP, they also
refresh easily.

Next

nuke pave

Can you please go into more detail on the Host file?

leythos

In article <2YFdb.4178$hp5.1437@fed1read04>, nojunk@mail.com says...

If both machines can see the internet, and they get IP addresses from
the router, then it's a matter of WORKGROUP ID that could be holding you
out:

Since I don't use 98 any more, I think you need file sharing, tcpip, and
something else. You should make the workgroup name of both computers
that same. You need to have good computer names (W98WKS001) or something
that doesn't have bad characters.

You need to disable any firewall software you've installed while testing
this - the router will protect you.

In W-XP, disable simple file sharing and disable ICS and any other
firewall that XP is using.

PING workstation W98 from workstation XP by IP address - does this work?

PING workstation XP from workstation 98 by IP address - does this work?

PING both by name - does this work?

MAP A DRIVE - create a SHARE on windows 98 box then on the XP box type:
net use * \\192.168.1.(98 box IP)\sharename

Let us know what you find.

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philippe l. balmanno

To make things simpler, do you have NetBEUI protocol on both machines
installed and NIC enabled?