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"Serban Andrei Dumitrescu" <sad@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to set up a home network consisting of two PCs, in order to
> share the one dial-up connection I have on one of them. I've tried
> several different configurations but it still won't work - please help me
> out with this.
>
> Here's the setup: one PC running Win2000 (the dial-up connection is setup
> on this one) and another (much older) PC running Win95. (No point further
> upgrading that one anyway.)
> I've bought 30 m (some 90 ft. I believe) of crossover cable and connected
> the two PCs.
> 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. 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.
> 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.
>
> - Enable NETBios over TCP/IP or not? I've actually tried both already in
> different configurations; no luck.
>
> - 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.
>
> - 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?
>
> - Finally, anything obvious I might have overlooked? Any way to test the
> cable itself?
>
> Thanks a bunch - any suggestions would be highly appreciated!
>
> TIA,
>
> Andrei
>
>