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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Did you try removing the laptop connection from the hub and uninstalling the ICS 
clients from the W98 machines to see if you can get back to 'square one' again as 
it was before?








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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What kind of internet connection and how is it shared? Let's say it's a DSL line with the DSL router running straight into the hub, you don't set up Windows Internet Connection Sharing for that. On the few I have setup, the DSL router is also the DHCP server for the network. So, you set up each station's network settings for a DHCP connection. If the internet connection is running to ONE station and shared from there then that's going to be your "server" with a static IP and Win ICS enabled and will act as your DHCP server. It sounds like XP wants to take charge here when it should just be getting set up as a regular ole workstation ( I have very little XP networking experience BTW) I'd say the boss running around with his little disk screwed things up, now you get to fix it.

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The XP laptop has been removed. We want to undo whatever damage may have been caused by running the XP Internet Connection sharing disk on the 98 stations. I did remove the Windows Networking Client from the network properties list of the station that is completely not recognized. Then attempted to add it back again but got the same results. I'm more concerned with first getting all 5 of the stations on the network to appear on each consistently. I'll check the other stations and remove the ICS clients on them too. Thanks


On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 2:04 pm, Stu g wrote:

>Did you try removing the laptop connection from the hub and uninstalling the ICS 
>clients from the W98 machines to see if you can get back to 'square one' again as 
>it was before?
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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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I traced my problem down to my hub. It was an older hub, and taking it out of the network solved the problem for me. - Mitch

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