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Desperately needs help with network
Name: wangeshi Date: March 13, 2004 at 18:02:07 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 384
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I just configured a home networking using a cross over cable. My Win 98 Desktop has connection to the internet (dial up for now) and it will be acting as a server. My XP home edition notebook will be the client. Now here's the deal. I set up the internet connection sharing on both machines and also shared two folders on both Machine. I have my crossover cable hooked to both computers I can successful retrieve files on my laptop (client) using my desktop (server) machine. Nevertheless, I cannot open my server computer from the client machine. The name of my server is King. When I go to my network places, I can see the name of my server machine. Nevertheless, I get the following error message when I try to double on the server "\\King is not accessible. You might not have the permission to use the network resource. Contact the administrator for this server to find out if you have access permission. The network path was not found". I can see both computers from my server machine and again I can open any of them and any files. I can successful ping my server machine from my client machine and vice versa. I have disabled my firewall to avoid any conflict. I have verified that the following files are installed on both computers {File & Print sharing, Microsoft for Network,TCP/IP internet. Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled on both machines. I have the server machine set up with 192.168.0.1 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and Client (xp) with 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0. Both machines are in the same workgroup. Nevertheless, I have not assigned any password to any of the computer. The However both have names (King for Desktop & Queen for Laptop) I did notice the following differences in my network settings. TCP/IP internet connection sharing appears on my 98 desktop under configuration but not on XP notebook. QoS Packet scheduler appears on my XP General configuration (LAN) but not on 98 Desktop. I desperately need help. I am out of ideas at this point. Note: I am not sure where XP built in firewall is located. I clicked on Advanced on the LAN screen but the protect my computer and Network icon was unchecked. Assuming everything is fixed, will I be able to access the internet simultaneously on both computers? Please respond with all your ideas. Thanks everyone
Name: Dave02 Date: March 13, 2004 at 19:29:02 Pacific
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Stick the XP cd into your CDROM on the 98 and choose aditional tasks and choose set up a small home or office network and go through the wizard, and reboot both machines when done. Make sure you tell the wizard that the 98 machine is the one connected directly to the internet. You will then have to create the same logon name and password on both PC's to be able to share files.
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Response Number 2
Name: darkfriend Date: March 13, 2004 at 21:11:02 Pacific
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They need different IP addresses. 192.168.0.1 for the one and 192.168.0.2 for the other. -DF
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Response Number 3
Name: wangeshi Date: March 14, 2004 at 09:04:37 Pacific
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They already have different IP's. I was actually able to share printer and files last night after beating my head against the wall several times. I have a new problem though. I cannot access the internet now on my XP machine. Any suggestion?
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Response Number 4
Name: darkfriend Date: March 14, 2004 at 12:35:42 Pacific
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Make sure the IP address for your dial-up is set to obtain automatically. Actually it's been so long since I've used dial-up I'm not sure it is even an option. To tell you the truth you shouldn't even have to manually assign any IP addresses. Windows will auto assign a 169.254.xx.xx address to both computers and file sharing should still work. But you've probably been down that road. -DF
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Response Number 5
Name: wangeshi Date: March 14, 2004 at 16:10:25 Pacific
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DF, Are you sure my IP is supposed to be set up as DHCP? I've read a lot of posts and they all recommend that to be unchecked. Anyway I tried obtaining IP address automatically but that didn't work. I also tried using default gateway for my server machine and DNS server for my ISP but that didn't work. What else should I try?
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Response Number 6
Name: darkfriend Date: March 14, 2004 at 17:30:47 Pacific
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Well if you're using crossover cable you can set the LAN IP's manually, but if you don't it will use Windows Automatic IP Addressing if a DHCP server doesn't exist. I guess most people just don't like seeing the 169.254.xx.xx cause it looks broke. Manual is probably easiest. But the dial-up should definetly be automatic.
This is a difficult process. You would have much better luck using the XP machine as the server and use the more advanced Internet connection sharing protocol provided with XP. -DF
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