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file sharing with Win98SE and ME

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by RAMDISK, 2002/11/20.

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  1. 2002/11/20
    RAMDISK

    RAMDISK Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have 3 computers networked via a netgear 4 port DSL router
    They can all access the internet but when I try to share files it doesn't work. I am using a network log on for each computer and the drives that I am sharing are shared full access with a password. I can't even see the other computers when I do a
    Run ->\\computername

    ~all 3 use netgear ethernet card

    ~gateway = 192.168.0.1

    ~1 computer is Win98SE and the other 2 are WinMe

    Any help is appreciated
     
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    Newt

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    The gateway shouldn't even come in to play for your local machines. It is strictly for passing network traffic to systems outside your local subnet & workgroup.

    If you used the ME Networking Wizard, it may have bitten you and stuff in values that won't work together. A few things:

    Can you ping each PC by ip address? By name?

    Are they all in the same workgroup and is the workgroup name good to use - i.e., 8 characters or less, all alpha-numerics, no spaces.

    If your gateway is a 192.168.0.x address, the others should all be similar so between 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.254 and using a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask.

    With only 3 PCs to deal with, you might try assigning static IP addresses to each (along with the subnet mask and gateway address) so you could put a hosts file on each. Just edit the existing hosts.sam file so it contains

    IP address (at least one blank space) comnputername - for instance:
    192.168.0.100 george George GEORGE
    192.168.0.110 fred Fred FRED
    192.168.0.120 master Master MASTER

    for each PC and save it to the same location but with no extension.
     
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