trouble with network

[bigdog1218]

i'm setting up a network to share my dsl connection, the computer with the dsl has win95, and the other is win98, right now i'm trying just to get them networked together, i am able to ping my win98 computer from the win95 comp, but i can't see the computers in the netwrk neighborhood, they have the same workgroup so that cant be it, also when it says to log on i get some it can't find the domain name to validate the password

any help would be great thanks

 

[LANMAN]

If you don't have a Windows NT server to log into, uncheck the "login to domain" check box so your not prompted for a password. (In your network properties) The only other service you need is file and printer sharing installed. (Didn't see that listed in your thread).

--LANMAN

 

[bigdog1218]

thats installed too, i don't understand why the ping would work, but still can't get the computers to recognize eachother

 

[LuckyTaxi]

havent used win98 in quite sometime, but find the option that says something like "enable browse listing." Not sure if this is the solution, but this happened to me once, and when I enabled it, my PCs showed up under network neighborhood.

 

[Abzstrak]

you need netbeui installed or encapsulated in the tcpip. otherwise the IP's will work but not the names. Also, make sure its not just holding browser elections.... wait about 10 minutes and see if they start working, if so disable the browser election from one of the machines

 

[bigdog1218]

i already had netbeui installed,where can i find the browser election setting

 

[n0cmonkey]

Do you really want to share files between the machines? If so please dont connect to a dsl connection! When your machine gets hacked and I get scanned I have more work to do.

But for the moment I will assume (yes I know) you know a bit about network security. Ok you have tcp/ip, netbeui, and client for microsoft networking installed. The machines can ping each other. You do not have a firewall setup to block connections from each other, they are part of the same workgroup, they are on the same subnet (ie 192.168.100.0/24 or whatever), but they cannot see each other in nework neighborhood? Sounds tough. As long as everything I said is true, you should not be having a problem. Go back through all the settings for both machines and check. If that does not work try removing the client for ms networking and reinstall it. That is like the reboot of the MS networking world