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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
Last edited by RAMDISK; 20th November 2002 at 22:53.
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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.
