Zapart

In answer to your questions : 1. Yes, all stautus light indicate OKAY on the Cards and on the Switch. 2.No i havent tried board diagnostics....dont think i have any! 3. I Havent tried anything but Auto...so i will give it a shot! 4. IP...what difference does it make? i have used about 5 diffrent strings of IP on each of the computers...nothing makes a difference...they are now..in fact...set to 192.168.0.* 5. i was pinging by IP address Where is this HOSTS file....i havent editied as yet! Thanks for your help....i hope you can give me some more :-) (btw i just upgraded to the dual Supermicro P6DGS (not that that has any relevance!)

Full Duplex is in the advanced properties of the Network adapter...access it through: COMPS NEAR ME props>LAN props>CONFIGURE Properties...or SYSTEM>HARDWARE>DEVICE MAN

Hi all, i am new to this so please bare with me. I have been through all the previous networking messages but unfortunately nothing has been said to help me out?.... I have an 8 port Switch, running CAT5 cables to 3 computers (2 Win98 and 1 Win2k) All 3 computers are using Accton EN1207D Cards. All three boxes utilised the switch perfectly when they were all in Win 98, however, now that i have installed Win2K My box is just not being accepted over the network. The 2 Win98 machines work fine and can ping eachother...they CANNOT ping the win2K Box, as it cannot ping them. I am using TCP/IP protocol on all machines and i have tried countless efforts of configuration setup for the win2K machine but nothing seems to work. IP Addresses are : 203.32.4.1 (2,3) Subnet : 255.255.255.0 Win2K Had its own drivers for the network card...i have tried them, and the same drivers the win98 boxes are running...still nothing... Somebody's gotta help me...i can't survive without this network...and by reading all your messages...it is obviously possible to get a successful config....what am doing wrong??? (by the way...i know how to set up the user accounts...thats not the problem...its that the win2k machine cannot access win98 and vice a versa) Thanks, Zap

I assumed that would be the gateway so i already tried it...same on all machines....Damn this network....i think i might have do install win 98 on my second drive so i can have a dual boot and then just jump into win98 every time i need to access the network...how annoying!!!! Cables are fine, switch is fine...everythings fine...nothing is working :-( any last suggestions...what about the WINS tab...what is that for...is it necessary?

ahhh, Default gateway...well all three boxes are using NO gateway beacause i never had to use one in the past...and i dont know much about it. What would the gateway be???? btw, i tried all your other suggestions...no luck...and when i ran Netbeui on win2K...the network was totally ****ed up (pardon my french)...every time i tried to access the Comps Near Me...it would Not Respond. Where do i put the hosts file on the win98 machines...??? Do i have do include the IP address of the pooter the host file is on? Thanks for your help....hopefully we can nail it soon :-)