LAN headaches!!!

[telecomguy]

One PC has an Intel PII 166, (overclocked to 233), with an Asus TX97 MB, 64K RAM,CD-ROM, Zip drive (SCSI) a modem card and a few extra fans, for good measure. The other has an Athlon 850, (which balks at any attemts to overclock it, but that's another issue) on an Abit KT7A MB, 256K of RAM, CD-ROM, Zip drive (IDE), printer and its share of extra fans as well. The issue is, I can ping them each back and forth, but cannot see one another in network neighborhood (both are running Win 98 2E) and cannot share the printer or the internet connection. I CAN, however do network gaming between the two. What is missing to enable me to share the 'net and printer functionality, aside from using the sneakernet??? All helpful advice is welcome.

 

[Electric Amish]

There's no such thing as a PII 166 😉


What kind of stuff is under the Network Neighborhood properties??

Have you loaded TCP/IP & given both PC's IP addresses?

amish

 

[splice]

Do you have file and printer sharing enabled on both devices? Have you setup shared drives or directories?

 

[Hermann]

Sounds like a workgroup mis match. Check the settings on both computers and make sure they match.

 

[Fenix793]

Here are some things I can think of.

1)Check that the workgroups match
2)Check that you've installed ICS on the host machine
3)check to see if you have file and printer sharing
4)Make sure the DNS settings on the client computer are correct
5)make sure the Gateway is set correctly for ICS on the client

 

[CZroe]

I have seen systems that just refused to see eachother, but could see all others fine. Even after formatting & going through the exact same proceedure on both. Totally mind-boggling (Just like my friends "Professional Gamer's League (PGL) Certified" Linksys card that REFUSED to let us play Quake2 right (This was before Q3a was around). If he hosted everyone would freeze right before his computer would freeze & then resume after 3 seconds. This sometimes happened 4 times a minuite. We exchenged it & the EXACT same thing happened on all three identicle cards we tried! Afterwards, we popped in a cheap 10Mbit card & everything was flawless. No, it wasn't an IRQ issue either! I tried his in totally different PCs & it IS the cause. How could a "PGL Cert." network card not play Quake2 right if that was the only real "Professional" game to play on it at the time?! Linksys is BS no matter how "adequate" their products are now. I KNOW they had to pay PGL off for that endorsement!

 

[abu]

Hmm... you have NetBUI installed on both systems?