I just had a 80+ person lan party over the weekend.
The network consisted of EIGHT 16 port 10/100 hubs, which were all uplinked to a 16 port 10/100 SWITCH. All of the 4 servers plugged directly into the switch as well.
The server that had DHCP installed was a Win2K system, the rest were NT4 systems. Every server had its own shared file folder.
Two questions.
1) When the participants opened up network neighbourhood (mostly win98/me users there) they could see all the work groups and users but VERY VERY few could actually connect. It would give an error saying the network source/path could not be found. What would cause this if the system was turned on, with file sharing enabled and a shared folder with full access rights? Im thinking there was so much traffic going on that they just couldnt access it. Im wondering if I had installed a WINS server that it would have helped on the name resolution side of things and allowed more persons to connect to each other via network neighbourhood?
2) Of the 4 servers only the NT4 server systems would let people access their shared file folder. Both Win2k and NT4 were setup the same, tcp/ip, shared folder with full permissions and enabled the GUEST account (usaully the first thing you look at when this happens) You could SEE the win2k shared folder, but couldnt access it, was prompting for a password, even though i gave GUEST users full control access to that folder.
I dont have access to these servers anymore but im just curious if anyone knows what the solution to the problem may have been?
Thanks
The network consisted of EIGHT 16 port 10/100 hubs, which were all uplinked to a 16 port 10/100 SWITCH. All of the 4 servers plugged directly into the switch as well.
The server that had DHCP installed was a Win2K system, the rest were NT4 systems. Every server had its own shared file folder.
Two questions.
1) When the participants opened up network neighbourhood (mostly win98/me users there) they could see all the work groups and users but VERY VERY few could actually connect. It would give an error saying the network source/path could not be found. What would cause this if the system was turned on, with file sharing enabled and a shared folder with full access rights? Im thinking there was so much traffic going on that they just couldnt access it. Im wondering if I had installed a WINS server that it would have helped on the name resolution side of things and allowed more persons to connect to each other via network neighbourhood?
2) Of the 4 servers only the NT4 server systems would let people access their shared file folder. Both Win2k and NT4 were setup the same, tcp/ip, shared folder with full permissions and enabled the GUEST account (usaully the first thing you look at when this happens) You could SEE the win2k shared folder, but couldnt access it, was prompting for a password, even though i gave GUEST users full control access to that folder.
I dont have access to these servers anymore but im just curious if anyone knows what the solution to the problem may have been?
Thanks
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