A home Lan Headache suspects winMe linksys nics and my incomitence ahhh

[Esquire]

He just got a dell desktop with winme, and a laptop. he has an old p133(win95) thats going in the mix. Static IP i use at home (168.190.10.1 is this write?) I'm new to networking kinda. Is winme different than with 98?

thoughts
thank guru's of cyberspace
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I'm installling A lan with 2 desktops & a laptop.

machine one New dell 800+mhz p3 w/ winme
i installed linksys 10/100 in it fine, but i can't get it to allow me to share, i installed M$ client 4 networking but it doesn't give me the log in screen & no sharing is eather

Io installed tcpip & netbuei

macine 2 new dell laptop winme & linksys pcmcia 10/100
thing is perfect sharing everything is okay

Machine 3 p133 nec win95
another problem... installed the nic (linksys 10/100)
The nic has a yellow ! in device manager
I only have one other pci slot in it to try

i'm still newbie to LANs hellllppppp

thoughts welcome
Were not internet shareing now so just getting the lan running is my foucs

thanks

 

[Slacker]

192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.3 - etc....
is the default format for home lan i/p address's

 

[Esquire]

thanks slacker 8)
anything else

 

[Slacker]

I have not done any networking in M.E. , so I dont know if they changed anything,

Are you going to set up internet connection sharing on a broadband connection? if so, get a "gate" program (sygate) because when I had ICS in win98 it was not secure, had to switch to sygate and install a firewall and everything was fine

You need to install the card/s and protocols, install netbeui and have file and printer sharing bound to it, dont bind f&p/s to tcp/ip

 

[Esquire]

no iternet sharing yet... just networking

okay! slacker, your not one today 8)

when i do internet share get a "gate"
*dont bind f&p/s to tcp/ip* huh?

 

[Slacker]

f&p/s = file and printer sharing

you dont want file and printer sharing to use tcp/ip , it is not secure when connected to the internet, set up your file and printer sharing on netbeui.

 

[Esquire]

how do i gover that? will it automaticly use netbuui?

 

[Slacker]

Right clicking on the network neighborhood icon on a win9x desktop takes you to your networks properties setting screen, there is a tab for f&ps from there you can enable or disable it, after it is enabled you have to set the bindings for the protocols, netbeui is a protocol and tcp/ip is a protocol, f&ps can be "bound" to either one.

after right clicking the network neighborhood icon you will see the network properties screen, in the window that shows all the network adapters you will see your network card and the protocols that are installed for it, you should have tcp/ip and netbeui listed for your card, if you click on tcp/ip for your card and go to properties there will be a "bindings" tab, for tcp/ip you want to uncheck f&ps, for netbeui you would want to make sure that f&ps is checked

 

[Esquire]

actually it's
192.168.10.1 etc right
right not 192.168.0.1

 

[rockhard]

I had trouble with WinME with internet connection sharing in that when i tried to gateway to the router it would not access the net with its IP being fixed as u are doing. Even though my Win2K prof machine had a fixed IP also and had no such problems?
There was nothing wrong with the IP setup at all on my LAN just seemed that my Netgear ISDN router wasnt too impressed with WinME static IP's
Seeing as the router had a fixed IP i just set all the machines to obtain their IP's by DHCP and have had no trouble since.

Might be worth u bearing in the back of ur mind if u come across a similar problem with WinME.

rockhard =)

 

[Slacker]

esquire, my lan uses the numbers like I posted 192.168.0.1 and so on

 

[Esquire]

okAY, i'M NOT SURE NOW... huh doh caps lock

This is turning into a hugh headache... arggg

his machines are ruff. I'm using Linksys 10/100 pci nic's and its ruff

i've used on my home lan 192.168.10.1 and so on....

thoughts

 

[MadRat]

Its 192.168.x.x for the home LAN. The reason being is that this range of i.p. addresses is not routable. Your best bet is to get a little router, like a Cisco 675, that can act as a psuedo-DCHP server. It'll dish out the i.p.'s for your LAN if you set it up correctly. Refer to Cisco's website for setup instructions. Great source of info at that website.