setting up (enabling??) NETBEUI presently NETBIOS over DHCP

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Jay Nix

I am presently running MS WIN2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack
4 on a laptop. we have win98 machines that are easily
NETBEUI enabled and easily networked to each other. I am
unable to network these 98's to connect directly to this
win2000 machine using a cross cable.


I try to make sure that the win2000 machine is NETBEUI
enavbled but all i have is NETBIOS using DHCP

Nowhere in 2000 do I see any way to choose NETBEUI enable


could you please help my situation by explaining how to
get the 98 and the 2000 to see each other connected
directly through a cross cable connected to the same COM
port that both machines use for LAN internet access...???


I would dearly appreciate any and all insights that you
could share.

thanks in advance

Jay Nix
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Hi,

you might want to check out this article:

258717 - Configuring Windows 2000 Professional to Work in a Peer-to-Peer
Workgroup

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q258/7/17.asp&NoWebContent=1

On the Windows 98 machine, I recommend installing TCP/IP and not
NetBeui. This removes an extra protocol that you don't need. You will
need TCP/IP on the Win98 machine.

Some things to watch out for:
the computers are in the same workgroup
the computers have the same user accounts and passwords
the computers are on the same IP network.
(suggestion: use 192.168.2.4 and 192.168.2.5 as ip addresses,
255.255.255.0 as subnet masks)

After getting the 2 computers to communicate with each other, you can
enable ICS on the W2K machine, so that both can access the internet
using the COM device on the W2K machine.

Here's a guide on ICS:

307311 HOW TO: Set Up Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307311

Let us know how it works out,

k2list
 
Many sincere thanks!!!

I apologize because I failed to describe my situation in
further detail.

If I was dealing with one peer to peer situation, or if I
could change every situation at will, your insights would
be so perfect for me. (Thanks again)

but instead, I should have said, I cannot change the
hundreds of WIN98 machines out there already
NETBEUI'd "enabled". This is my situation exactly, I can
only change the Laptop running WIN2000 to see the already
NETBEUI'd machines. It's a work thing with solid
reasoning behind it, trust me...

so my question should have stated this and I should have
asked specifically how to get WIN2000 to see NETBEUI for
sure.

It kind of smells a little since the IP solution is so
superior, but alas, I must not change the WIN98 machines,
and there are hundreds of them out there.

Thanks again for your help
 
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