Zapart 0 Posted April 9, 2000 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!) Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted April 10, 2000 FWIW, 192.168.0.* is the reserved class C address range I was always taught to use for non-internet LANs. Anyway. I assume that all 3 machines have the same subnet mask (255.255.255.0) and the same default gateway. Have you tried the W2K box in a different port on the switch - in case you've plugged into the uplink by mistake? Have you tried rebooting the switch with all three machines powered up? Also, just for a laugh - try installing NetBEUI on all three boxes. It is a very trivial-to-setup stack as it only requires each machine has a name and is in the same workgroup, but should prove connectivity between all three boxes... HOSTS is a text file that is used by TCP/IP if DNS isn't available. It contains the IP address of each machine, along with it's name. For everything to work, though, this file must be on every machine on the network - hence for more than 5 boxes you use DNS. Let me know how you get on, and I'll keep thinking... Share this post Link to post
Zapart 0 Posted April 10, 2000 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 :-) Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted April 10, 2000 Right then. For default gateway, pick an arbitrary machine on the network (192.168.0.1), and set it to that. Use the "file search" under W9x to find the HOSTS file - it will be somewhere under the C:\Windows directory. The HOSTS file should be the same for each machine - it should include entries for all the machines on the local net. Silly question time - does the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" entry in the LAN Connection Properties page under W2K have a tick next to it indicating it's enabled? Share this post Link to post
