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Home network help.

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algae

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Hi all,
For some time now I have had my laptop (Dell Inspiron) networked to my desktop. Both are running Win 98 SE and the network has worked fine. Recently I disconnected them for a while because I needed my laptop away from home and upon returning and reconnecting, they don't see each other.
Here are the protocols, services, etc. that are set up on each:

Client for Microsoft Networks
FE575C - 3Com 10/100 Lan Card Bus
NetBeui
Tcp/Ip
File and Printer Sharing

The bindings are also ok.

They also share the same workgroup name and are connected through my Lyksys hub.

Any suggestions?

Thx
Gary
 
I had a similar problem. How i solved it was by removing Netbeui and TCP/IP then reinstalling them. I'm sure that there's another/better way to do this, but i didn't have the time 🙂. If u do this, i think u'll need to reinstall TCP/IP before Netbeui, because Netbeui rides over TCP/IP.

HTH
 
You don't need netbeui on your network at home.

Otherwise, if they worked before, I would check your TCP/IP settings by doing a winipcfg. If you took your system to work and plugged in over DHCP, I am betting that your IP addresses are not on the same IP block. Make sure that your IP addresses are capable of seeing each other. (192.168.1.102 for one system and 192.168.1.103 for the other for instance. Subnet mask 255.255.255.0)

Otherwise, I would remove TCP/IP and Netbeui, reboot, then reinstall TCP/IP.
 
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