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Serban Andrei Dumitrescu <sad@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,

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> I've installed (if it wasn't already) NetBEUI and TCP/IP on both PCs,
> set their IPs to 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2, respectively (subnet
> mask: 255.255.255.0), set the Win2000 machine (192.168.0.1) as the
> default gateway, added (if not already there) "Client for MS
> Networks" and "File & Printer Sharing", set up a common workgroup,
> added on the Win2000 PC another user named exactly as the default
> user on the Win95 machine (and with the same - blank - password)
> because some guys on the 'net said it would be a good idea.

Yes, you require the common username and password for resource sharing.

> Also I've
> created an entry for each PC in both the hosts file and the lmhosts
> file on both computers (disabling WINS and specifying to use LMHOSTS
> instead). All to no avail; NETBIOS names aren't translated to IP
> adresses, and pinging another PC by its IP number won't work either.
> Needless to say, there isn't any "personal firewall" running that
> could block requests.

If you cannot ping the other machine by IP number, then dont expect anything
to
occur through netbios. ping determines the basic network connectivity. To
resolve this
make sure that LAN connection is enabled in Win2k, and the lights on the
ethernet card
are on.

Also paste here the contents of *ipconfig /all* of both computers.

> Now here are some more specific questions:
>
> - Do I need to have NETBEUI installed at all? Not necessarily,
> according to my previous experience with Win95/WinNT networks,
> however those were large corporate networks with dedicated DNS
> servers, WINS servers, gateways etc. With my 2-PC-network I tried it
> both with and without NETBEUI (that is, with only TCP/IP as the
> default protocol), with no success either way.

Dont know about this one.

> - Enable NETBios over TCP/IP or not? I've actually tried both already
> in different configurations; no luck.

If you need to see shares with \\computer , you need to enable netbios.

> - Enable or disable DNS? Since I've no DNS server software running on
> neither PC, it seemed obvious to me to disable it; I also tried a
> configuration with DNS enabled, but no DNS server specified, and still
> another one when I specified the Win2000 machine as DNS server. None
> worked.

It depends on how you to choose the share the Internet. If you are using
built in Internet Connection sharing(ICS) then you have to set both DNS and
gateway to 192.168.0.1

> - I hear contradictory stuff about "Master browsing". Indeed, on the
> Win95 system there are to options (variables) that can be set up
> under "File and Printer Sharing": the first one (the upper one) is
> called something like "LM-Service" (default: "No") and another one
> below it called something like "Browsing" (default: Auto). I can't
> tell the exact English names because I'm actually running the German
> version of Windows. Should I change any of these two values?

No, keep them as it is.

> - Finally, anything obvious I might have overlooked? Any way to test
> the cable itself?

Yes, if you cannot ping by IP, this could be an issue. Try replacing the
cable.

> Thanks a bunch - any suggestions would be highly appreciated!
>
> TIA,
>
> Andrei

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