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CruzinTheGalaxie
September 29th, 1999, 05:30 AM
I have had 4 pcs all running win98 on a 5 port hub running great no problems. I sold the hub and nic cards to a friend at college and wired up cat5 cables for them so i can upgrade ... same hub same nics, different pcs... The problem is that i cannot get 2 win95 machines to talk with the 98 machine... am i missing something. all of their network settings are the same as my 4 98 machines had been.
we use the following:
client for microsoft networking
(any preferences with "quik logon/logon and restore")
tcp/ip (AUTO IP ADRESS)
ipx/spx
file and printer sharing

CorpseMan
September 30th, 1999, 01:45 PM
Try specifying an IP address like
198.162.5.1 on computer #1 then for the rest follow the sequence like computer #2 would be 198.162.5.2. If this still does not work then try your netbeui protocol then assign the computers names then a Workgroup name that is the same for all. Can both WIN95 machines talk to each other? If not check you nic cards.

CruzinTheGalaxie
September 30th, 1999, 10:21 PM
Loaded win98 on the other machines... now it all works with the same network setting previously used

flikserv
October 4th, 1999, 09:01 AM
The Win95's may have needed the Winsock update to be installed in order to communicate with Win98 via TCP/IP.

bossman
October 6th, 1999, 03:56 PM
I had to use netBEUI to get mine to work, and I do have a win95 machine talking to my win98 and win2k machines

fresuar
October 8th, 1999, 02:33 AM
hi! I think that the best solution is to add net BEUI protocol.