RE: Strange Windows Network Problem

Jeff,

Perhaps you have a mix.  Older machines have both NetBeui and TCP/IP.

Newer ones have TCP/IP only.

Also, it takes time for a new machine to "see" all the others.

This is the part of MS Networking that is mysterious to me.

The good news however is that when you add the machine into a Domain,
then it pretty much sees everybody right away.  Or so my experience
leads me to believe.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:07 PM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Strange Windows Network Problem

Bob Crothers wrote:

> Is your network using NetBeui?  That protocol is not loaded by
default.
> You must do so manually.

That fixed it!  Thanks.

But it still doesn't answer all questions:

1) After installing NetBeui, that PC could only see 1 other PC, a WinME
with Netbeui installed.  No other PC on the network could be seen.  But
the other W98 PC _could_ see every PC in the network (except the one
with the original problem) even though this W98 PC did _not_ have
NetBeui installed.  Huh?

2) My W2K PC can see every PC with NetBeui installed even though it
_doesn't_ have NetBeui installed.

3) My guess is that once I have NetBeui installed on all PCs,
everything
will be seen.

4) In the entire Windows Network Troubleshooter it never said anything
about NetBeui.

--
-Jeff

New email address: jlcrosby@dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.

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