Win9x Peer to Peer problem

[Chadder007]

A few nights ago the power was flipped off here and everything went down. There are only 3 computers hooked up using Cat5 going to a small hub. The computers could see each other before the power failure, but now they can't. I borrowed a network cable tester from my work and the wires seemed ok and it detected the hub just fine. I decided to reinstall the NIC cards and one of them didn't come back up and kept giving errors. I replaced it with one that worked and installed just fine. The network was using TCP/IP but I changed that to Netbeui and still I cannot see the other computers on the workgroup. ....and yes they all have file and printer sharing checked and the client for microsoft networks on, with unique computer names. Any ideas? Could something have zapped that one NIC card and the hub possibly?

 

[Norssak]

For nth time:

start ->run-> net use x: \\computername\sharename

I can't see my own ass 99% of the time, yet I know where it is and how to find it (it's true, be amazed)!!
Trying to SEE computers in your Network neighborhood, is like sticking your head between your legs to see if you still have a rear to sit on!


:|

 

[Chadder007]

oh yeah....(forgot to add) ive used the net commands and nothing pings, nothing shows up with \\pc1, nothing maps or anything.

 

[Norssak]

Well then the privious rant does not apply to you specifically.

You can only ping if you still have TCP/ip running on both machines.

start->run->winipcfg can de used to see what the current IP on a machine is, they should be 192.168.0.x unless you specified otherwise.

If you can't ping anything, and the settings look alright, I'd take a hard look at the hub to see if it was on/functional

 

[Chadder007]

I pretty much have quadruple checked the TCP/IP settings then I switched over to Netbeui just to see if that helped but it didn't. The hub shows link lights. There must be something screwed up in the hub (its a VERY cheapy one). Thank you for your replies though. Do you know any way to check the hub specifically?

One more thing to add here...I do see the activity lights flicker when I try to ping, log onto the network, and browse.

 

[Norssak]

If you get the lights to flicker it's a good sign the Hub is alive.
Probably a config thing, you got 3 computers that means 6 possible ping tests.
Well 9 if you count loopback. which we haven't mentioned yet. ping 127.0.0.1 should give you a positive result if TCP/IP is bound to the NIC correctly.

And you test a hub by replacing it.