help establish a lan

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David Bernier

I have three computers on which I am trying to create a LAN. Computer on has
the Actiontec1524SU DSL Gateway (wireless enabled) connected through
ethernet and running windows 2K. Computer two is a desktop with a USB
wireless adapter running Windoes 2K.

Computer 3 is a Dell Latitude CP laptop running Windows 98 through a
wireless PCMCIA. I am able to access the internet on all three computers,
but I am unable to share files or printers. My network places has only 3
items. 1 add new network places. 2 Entire network. 3 Computers near me.
Entire network and computers near me are empty.

This is my first attempt at networking computers. I have been through the
win 2k help files and everything qwest(my DSL provider) has to offer and
cannot find what I have failed to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
I have three computers on which I am trying to create a LAN. Computer
on has the Actiontec1524SU DSL Gateway (wireless enabled) connected
through ethernet and running windows 2K. Computer two is a desktop
with a USB wireless adapter running Windoes 2K.

Computer 3 is a Dell Latitude CP laptop running Windows 98 through a
wireless PCMCIA. I am able to access the internet on all three
computers, but I am unable to share files or printers. My network
places has only 3 items. 1 add new network places. 2 Entire network. 3
Computers near me. Entire network and computers near me are empty.

This is my first attempt at networking computers. I have been through
the win 2k help files and everything qwest(my DSL provider) has to
offer and cannot find what I have failed to do. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
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Hi David,

Here are some tips!

1. Make sure all machines are in the same workgroup!
2. Also make sure you have netbeui protocol installed on all machines!
3. You must also install file and printer sharing on the 98 box if you want
to share files or printers from it.

Bigfeet!!!!!!!!!!
 
I spent about a week trying to figure out why I couldn't see all the
computers on my home network.

I have a similar setup - except I have a Cable modem instead of a DSL modem.

My connection path is:

Internet => Cable Modem => Actiontec Wireless Router => WinXP machine

The wireless router is connected to my network card on the WinXP Pro
machine. I am NOT using ICS.

I have two Win98SE machines, one is a laptop with PCMCIA wireless card, one
is a desktop with a PCI wireless card. I also have another WinXP Pro
desktop.

The Wireless cards are all Actiontec, and when I installed them the drivers
went in just fine and all machines could access the internet with no
problems.

I recently decided I need to get to share files between all the machines.
None of the computers could see the others. Here are two things I did that
resolved my problem.

1. As suggested by Bigfeet, make sure all the computers have the same
workgroup name. If you used the default, it's probably ACTIONTEC, altho one
of mine was different. To set the workgroup name on Win98, Start > Settings
Control Panel then open Network. Open the Identification tab, and make
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sure that a) the Computer Name is unique and that b) the Workgroup matches
all the other computers on your network.

To set the workgroup name on WinXP, Start > Control Panel. Depending on
your view, either open System or choose the Performance and Maintenance task
and then open System. In the Computer Name tab, click on the Change button
and make sure that a) the Computer name is unique and that b) the Workgroup
matches the other computers on your network.

Sorry, can't help with Win2K, have never run that but I'm sure you can find
it.

After making those changes, I was able to see some of the computers from the
WinXP Promachine connected to the Actiontec wireless router. I was not able
to see any other computers from the rest of the networked systems, although
they could still get to the internet.

2. Try shutting down all your firewall software - ZoneAlarm, BlackIce, or
whatever. When I did that, I was able to see all the computers on the
network from any of the other computers.

I don't use netbeui, but there is no harm in using it. I'm using TCPIP.

I also sketched out my layout with the IP addresses of each machine. Then I
used the MS/DOS Ping command to see if the machines were accessible to each
other.
 
No need for NetBeui. TCP/IP is all you need.


bigfeet said:
Hi David,

Here are some tips!

1. Make sure all machines are in the same workgroup!
2. Also make sure you have netbeui protocol installed on all machines!
3. You must also install file and printer sharing on the 98 box if you want
to share files or printers from it.

Bigfeet!!!!!!!!!!
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If that is the case, why could I not find any other computers with
only TCP/IP and the other computers only showed up when NetBeui
protocol was loaded

DT.
 
If that is the case, why could I not find any other computers with
only TCP/IP and the other computers only showed up when NetBeui
protocol was loaded

DT.
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They show up because NETBEUI is a broadcast protocal which populates the
netbios names to the network.

Bigfeet!
 
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