Getting Win95 to be recognized on routered LAN

I have a router and two computers, one with win98 the other with winXp, both are connected to each other and the internet and are working fine...

Now, I have been given an old 486 with win95 on it and have setup the lan card, attached it to the router and installed the appropriate protocols (tcpip, ipx for games). BUT, when I reboot the win95 PC it doesn't get an IP address assigned to it by the router. I've put the Network tcpip options for the card to auto assign an IP, took Wins Resolution off, and no gateways/dnses (that is how I have it set in win98 and it works there).
I've also given the PC a name and the same workgroup in the Identification section, but no IP gets assigned.

When I do an ipconfig, both the eth0 and eth1 are at 0.0.0.0.
SO, I tried assigning an IP with the same first 3 sets of numbers as the other 2 machines (i.e. 192.168.0...) to 192.168.0.102 (other 2 machines are 100, 101) and then when I reboot win95, both of the others 2 machines can now see its name in network neighborhood, but can't access it. Can't ping it either.
The win95 machine sees itself and can ping itself, but not the other 2 machines. Also, ipconfig now shows the ip I assigned and the netmask but not the gateway.

Is there something else in win95 that I have to set for the router to truly have access to it (that I don't seem to have had to in win98)? How do I get win95 to understand to use the router as the dhcp server (I shouldn't have to be assigning one)?

thx,

 

I don't use a router but I'm pretty sure you have to specify the router IP as the default gateway on the '95 machine. Trying to use DCHP was a nightmare, so I just opted for static addresses. This proved necessary because I use ICS, and that forces the interface IP on the ICS machine to 192.168.0.1. DCHP assigned an address, but not in the 192.168.0.x range.

I can also recall getting problems with one PC "seeing" the other, and that there is an "ethernet ID network address" that had to be specified (IPX properties) to get them to talk over IPX/SPX protocol. The actual number doesn't matter, it just has to be the same on both - I used the value 1. I don't use IPX anymore, found it easier to use NETBEUI.

Hope there's something of use in all this - I know it certainly IS possible to configure a setup like yours.

 

Well here is a few ideas.

Is "client for microsoft networks" your logon?

Have you installed "File and Printer Sharing" and set a drive or folder as shared.

Try setting your gateway to 192.168.1.1

 

I already had the first two, but was using 192.168.0.1 for the gateway because that's the router's IP. Why are you suggesting, 192.168.1.1? Just trying to understand the reasoning behind it.


In any case I did try 192.168.1.1 but no luck.