Can't See Windows 98 Computers!

[Unkoon2000 0]

Help!

 

I can't see any win98 computers from windows2000, but i can see the win2000 computers from a win98 computer.

Does anybody know whats wrong???

 

This is weird!

[simonroockley 0]

I've posted this before under the slow network connections post.

 

A way round this is to use the host.sam and LMHost.sam files during the dns lookup stage, NTx and 9x use these as a backup to DNS (if you look in the TCP/IP properties in NTx you will ses under DNS an option to lookup LMhost).

You do this by using notepad to edit the files and enter the entries in the format of the example within the file.

i.e.

192.168.1.1 user1

192.168.1.2 user2

This should also help speed up network browsing.

This is also a good way of solving browsing problems on a machine that is on two seperate ip domains.

 

Hope this helps

 

Simon

 

This seems to clear up a lot of TCP/IP evils under NTx and 9x

 

Another way is to add another protocl to every machine ie netbeui or IPX compatible.

[rickj 0]

sometimes enabling netBEUI if using ipx/spx fixes this............

[Flaz 0]

If you're using IPX- enable netbios over IPX on the Win9x systems.