Network problem

[blazer2boy]

Last night I tried to share printers on the network with the other computers on the network. But none of the other computershow up under network neighborhood.

I'm at a loss for what is wrong.

Currently have 3 computers each computer has a PCI Links 10/100 NIC card.
one computer has NT 4.0 and the other 2 have win 98se. these are all connected to a 8 port Links system hub using cat 5 cable.

Each machine has the same work group name. and I have put in the TCP/IP address and subnet all of them have TCP/IP as the default protocal.
And they all have file and print sharing enabled.
PS the adresses are different all subnets are the same.

I know that more info may be needed but thought I would post what I know
so that I could start on this when I get home today. Could it be a problem with the hub it is on all the time.

Any ideas anyone.

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Blazer

[sea69]

sounds to me like you already covered most of the possible problems.. I am checking, but in the meantime had you seen this (http://2fix.bvu.edu/help/apps/win98/76NBXN6US.ASP) ??

very nice, basic, but nice.....


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[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 04-06-2001).]

[Ghost_Hacker]

Computer names work with Netbios which can be ran over TCP/IP or Netbuei. The simplest fix is to install Netbuei on all the computers and reboot.
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[This message has been edited by Ghost_Hacker (edited 04-06-2001).]

[Rick]

Have you gone into the drive properties and the printer area and set the share state for each drive and or printer?

Also The Work gruop name must match exactly.
Workgroup and workgroup will not work together.

Also I agree with Ghost.
Add netbeui protocal

[bunk]

Did you go to Start > Settings > Printers > Add Printer and tell each computer to add network printer then provide the correct UNC name?

[sleddog]

You should first check to see if you have network connectivity (before worrying about Network Neigbourhood). Try pinging one machine from another. Open a DOS box and type:

C:\>ping <ip-address>

Where <ip-address> is one of the network machines, e.g.,

C:\>ping 192.168.1.1

Do every machine.If you get responses OK, if not you have hardware/NIC/cabling problems.


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[blazer2boy]

Thank everyone for the ideas. Will have to try them tonight.

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Brazer

[blazer2boy]

Tried to ping the other machines last night no luck. So it appears that I have a hardware conflict. Looked at the device manager tab no Exclamation
marks. But did look at the conflict/sharing tab in system info and found that 1 machine has the Highpoint ata using IRQ 5, which is the same IRQ as the NIC. Will do some more testing/checking tonight. Does anyone know what can share an IRQ? The reason I'm asking is that I will have to free up an IRQ in order to have the NIC on a seperate IRQ to do that I would have to disable a com port not such a bad price to pay will still have 1. But if I could find out what can share I might be able to keep everything?

Can I just change the highpoint to one of the com port IRQ's?

Or does anyone have another idea that could work.

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Blazer

[Ghost_Hacker]

IRQs assigned to LPT ports can be shared. But I would not reassign the hard drive to a "shared" IRQ.


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[blazer2boy]

Well freed the NIC card to IRQ 3 no conflicts now. But it still does not work. I looked at the card and noticed that the green LED is not on.
Now I also looked at the second machine and its light is not on as well. tried one of the NIC's in another machine still no light. Does this mean that the NICS are bad or will not work in these machines?


Blazer

[Ghost_Hacker]

Most NICs come with a diagnostic program that runs in DOS. I would use that first to check that the cards do work.

Also is your HUB an autosensing one? If not I would manually configure the NIC cards to run at whatever speed the hub supports. There should also be lights on the hub that tell you when traffic or a connection has been made.


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[blazer2boy]

Thanks Ghost Hacker

The lights come on the hub but the 2 NIC cards the LED light does not
come on.

Will do some more work on this tonight.

Cheers

Blazer