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re: Question about 'Getting Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers'
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 8:08 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul Sykes
(1 messages posted)
Here's What I found out when I ran into the same problem as you.
1) never use ICS from Microsoft.
2) Windows XP Home has a 5 machine limit on any network. you will automatically
have the last machine added to the network before the XP machine booted off the network
I dont know if these fit your situation or not? but if it's the bosses personal
laptop? it's probably XP Home.
upgrade it to XP pro, and use something like Sygate Office Network. it's not badly
priced, and it handles the connections fine
Paul Sykes
Webmaster
LLPSV.us inc.
On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 11:44 am, AL Barrington wrote:
>I have a question about Getting
>Network Neighborhood to recognize newly attached computers:
>I'm helping a company with a 5 station peer to peer network on Windows 98se. There
>is a cable internet connection that they all share. One day the boss brings in
his
>Windows XP laptop and connects it to the hub and trys to join the network. During
>the network setup wizzard on the laptop, he answered that the laptop would connect
>to the internet via the LAN. Later in the wizzard it still had him create an internet
>connection sharing disk and instructed him to run it on all other computers in the
>network. The first computer he ran the disk on caused the whole network to act
very
>strange. Now sometimes stations show up in the network neighborhood and sometimes
>not. One station can see none of the others at all, not even itself. We've checked
>all connections, properties and settings throughout the LAN. All seem as they should.
> What sort of corruption of the network from running XP's connection sharing is
possible
>and what if any, is the corrective action?
>
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