Problems with NetBui

[Cantabile]

Hi,
I have a small private Lan, 2 machines under Win98. One of them as two nics : the first one for my ADSL connection, the other one for the Lan. The other, a single nic. The two boxes communicate through a crossed cable via NETBUI (because of the risks of TCP/IP).
Things generally work but sometimes, when I try and copy a file (just copying, no real networking) from one box to the other one, the destination PC hangs, the windows cannot be closed. It seems that Windows is waiting for something...
From time to time, I have a message saying that the 'resource isn't available any more'...
Of course, I checked parameters :

• NETBUI configured the same way on both machines

• shares declared, an so on...

Any clue would help : it's annoying, especially when I am in a hurry and the PCs just wait infintely !

Cheers.

 

[Tharsis]

Cantabile:
Very interesting. I have the same thing on my LAN also? I have a 5 node peer-to-peer
NetBEUI with all nodes Win98 ( two SE ). Only one machine of the 5 exhibits this hang.
All have different CPU's and mobo's, hardware etc, so I think it's not NetBEUI but
the specific hardware combo in the one unit. Dunno? This same unit will also exhibit
frequent "mouse freezes" mostly when on the Net ( I share a DSL on all 5 units ) but also in thetransfer of files to and from this unit. Installed latest drivers for mobo ( Asus K7V )
and video card ( Maxi Gamer Xentor AGP 32 ) and mouse ( MS Intellimouse ) but made no difference! Hopefully someone with more knowledge/experience will have a suggestion...
Thar.

 

[coloumb]

Is it feasable to run an ftp server on one machine? I've also found netbui networking in WinMe to be pitiful.

 

[ArkAoss]

netbui is really the lightest protocol out their, i suggest adding ipxspx protocol (only used for gaming but it might tweak the drivers right so you dont have that prob) i've done a bit of networking, and always use netbeui as the base protocol but have never encountered what your saying, how long is the cross over cable? i think due to being a cross over cable it needs to be less than 14 ft or so, also on the dual nic machine in the properties for the outgoing disable it's linkage to netbeui. keep us posted with more info, if you think its important

 

[obenton]

Could be system file corruption or problem with NIC (configuration, driver, PCI slot, interrupt).