Can only ping from W2k to Win98

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Doris

I have a small home network, or I will have. I have W2k Pro on mine
and Win98 on my husbands.

W2k box can see, access, ping Win98, both by name and by ip. Win98
can ping localhost but cannot ping, see or access W2k, either by name
or ip, it gets request timed out. Hey, at least it gives the ip it is
trying to ping! Zone alarm and netdefense both set to allow but have
disabled to test as well.

Win98 user setup on W2k, group permissions, same group as for user on
W2k

Workgroup-Home
client for microsoft networks
tcp/ip
file and printer sharing for microsoft networks
crossover cables no hub,switch or router
W2k modem dialup works (thank goodness)

W2k 192.168.0.1
255.255.255.0
Win98 192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0

what am I missing??

Thanks
 
This is most likely a firewall issue. You may think that your
firewall is turned off but it is not really. I recommend you
check the ZoneAlarm FAQs.
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
This is most likely a firewall issue. You may think that your
firewall is turned off but it is not really. I recommend you
check the ZoneAlarm FAQs.




Add the range of 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255 to the trusted zone of ZA or
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else it wont work and drop the slider bars down to medium. #

Jud
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a small home network, or I will have. I have W2k Pro on mine
and Win98 on my husbands.

W2k box can see, access, ping Win98, both by name and by ip. Win98
can ping localhost but cannot ping, see or access W2k, either by name
or ip, it gets request timed out. Hey, at least it gives the ip it is
trying to ping! Zone alarm and netdefense both set to allow but have
disabled to test as well.

Win98 user setup on W2k, group permissions, same group as for user on
W2k

Workgroup-Home
client for microsoft networks
tcp/ip
file and printer sharing for microsoft networks
crossover cables no hub,switch or router
W2k modem dialup works (thank goodness)

W2k 192.168.0.1
255.255.255.0
Win98 192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0

what am I missing??

Thanks
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I have exactly the same setup except i am networking W2K
with W95 (using W95 as a Print server to take the load off
my W2k machine)

The problem may lie with W98 not having permission to
access W2k. So for e.g on my W95 machine (I'm sure this
should apply to W98), my username and password to log on
from boot up are as follows:

Username: GEORGE
Password: 123456

Go into W2k add a New User (Computer Management/Local
Users and Groups/Users etc) with the name 'GEORGE' and
give it the same password '123456'.

And remember W98 will not recognise NTFS under W2k, so you
can't map any drives from W98 if all your W2k drives are
NTFS.

If you have FAT32 drives in W2k, right click drive and
set 'Sharing' attributes to let W98 map a drive to W2K.

Hope that helps
George
(e-mail address removed)
 
I have exactly the same setup except i am networking W2K
with W95 (using W95 as a Print server to take the load off
my W2k machine)

The problem may lie with W98 not having permission to
access W2k. So for e.g on my W95 machine (I'm sure this
should apply to W98), my username and password to log on
from boot up are as follows:

Username: GEORGE
Password: 123456

Go into W2k add a New User (Computer Management/Local
Users and Groups/Users etc) with the name 'GEORGE' and
give it the same password '123456'.

And remember W98 will not recognise NTFS under W2k, so you
can't map any drives from W98 if all your W2k drives are
NTFS.

If you have FAT32 drives in W2k, right click drive and
set 'Sharing' attributes to let W98 map a drive to W2K.

Hope that helps
George
(e-mail address removed)
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The OP said that she could not ping certain machines.
Pinging has nothing at all to do with permissions, with
NTFS or with sharing.

Furthermore: the issue of NTFS is totally irrelevant from
the point of view of sharing. If a Win98 machine can
make a connection to a Win2000 share then the redirector
on the Win2000 machine will handle the file system issues.
The Win98 machine will be unaware that it is dealing with
an NTFS partition.
 
I think it has to have something to do with the crossove cable. I have
a similar setup. 15 computers, from XP home and pro, to 2kpro to 98se
and they can ALL see each other and access each others machines just
fine. I have a router, a hub and 2 ap's!
 
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