Win 95 laptop

[Web Sniffer]

I've just had an ancient Win 95 laptop given to me.

It has a network card (3Com) which In installed the drivers for and
which according to Device Manager is properly recognised.

I have three Win XP machines which talk to one another. All I did was to
buy a 4-way switch and some cables.

I *hoped* that the Win 95 machine would simply work, too. But I plug the
cable into the hub and nowt happens. When I boot the laptop says no
domain server is available to verify my password. Then it asks for my
password for MIcrosoft Networking. I have set the domain to match the
workgroup on the XP machines.

Network Neighbourhood shows only the laptop on the network. When I try
to find a computer it searches and says 0 are found.

I can see the different adapters, protocols etc in Network Properties.
Can anyone tell me what settings have a chance of working?

 

[philo]

I've just had an ancient Win 95 laptop given to me.

It has a network card (3Com) which In installed the drivers for and
which according to Device Manager is properly recognised.

I have three Win XP machines which talk to one another. All I did was to
buy a 4-way switch and some cables.

I *hoped* that the Win 95 machine would simply work, too. But I plug the
cable into the hub and nowt happens. When I boot the laptop says no
domain server is available to verify my password. Then it asks for my
password for MIcrosoft Networking. I have set the domain to match the
workgroup on the XP machines.

Network Neighbourhood shows only the laptop on the network. When I try
to find a computer it searches and says 0 are found.

I can see the different adapters, protocols etc in Network Properties.
Can anyone tell me what settings have a chance of working?

be sure to have tcp/ip enabled

 

[tmt]

try pinging the ip's of the other machines. That will at least tell
you if the NICS can talk to each other. If they can then as was
mentioned above verify tcp/ip is installed and configure it with a
static ip like the others. Also if you haven't done so, share a
resource like a folder or something else. Try enabling file and
printer sharing and this may do it. Be prepared to do a lot of
restarts as win95 requires a restart if you change anything.