I am trying to set up a simple home network - two Win98SE machines with Ethernet cards connected through a switch. Only one machine has a modem; I want to use ICS on the other. (I realize that this is not quite a state-of-the- art system, but it's what I've got). Everything was working until I...

This is a fresh reinstall of a win98 os. It's connected via a router to a workgroup. How do I get win98 to recognize/access the router? All hardware is working fine. Router is operational for the other pc's on my peer2peer network.

Hello all, can anyone tell me why 98 boxes can't resove a fqdn as a unc path? I have about 500 machines and 50% of them can and the other 50% can't. They have an identical network config, so I am confused. I have written VB login script that maps drives to a FQDN but on ly works on about 50% of...

I used to have my windows 98 network working fine with the TCP/IP ip address obtained automatically but now it won't work anymore. I tried redoing the network but it just doesn't work. I have a desktop and a laptop set up on a wireless network. Whenever I enter ip addresses for the two computers...

upon startup, get odi/ndis mapper initialization failure, cannot find LSL ANY HELP?

I have an old PC running Windows 98. The Motherboard died and I had to put a new one in. I have gotten the PC back up and running with one exception: I cannot connect to the internet. Very strange issue though I can browse a local network and I can Ping to the internet by IP Address. I cannot Ping...

I have a 98SE machine that forgot its client and protocol information last night. O well I thought and added it again but after the obligatory reboot it had forgotton it again. Can some one help as I obviously cant get this on the network with out it. Regards

I put this in the general discussion group earlier, but got no replies. My wifes PC has somehow got some unknown to its network. I found them when checking ZoneAlarms firewall trusted/internet zone. One is a "PPP adapter", the other is "Microsoft TV/Video 3.0.0.2/255.255.255.255 adapter subnet". I...

I have a peer to peer network with the internet connection (ISDN) on a machine running XP professional and the ICS Client running Windows 98 version 2. All is well with the network except the ICS Client appears to be dialling the internet at random intervals and does not run either a browser nor...

Hello I have a user on my network whos account keeps being locked out. We have a win2k server. From what he tells me he tries to access his network drive and nothing happens so he reboots his pc and finds that he is unable to login until I unlock his account. Any ideas what maybe causing it? Its...

I'm trying to network a Win98SE computer with Win XP (home) using a crossover cable between the computers. The XP is connected to the internet. I have managed to successfully get a private LAN IP address allocated to the Win98SE computer, I can ping the XP computer from the 98 (ping works even with...

I have a LAN with many W98 systems along with a W2K Pro system, a WinXP Home system, a WinME system and a W2003 Server. I have a shared folder on the W2003 Server that all PC's have access to via mapped Network Drive. When I click on Network Neighborhood on any W98 system, I sometimes see all other...

My network has a W98, Win XP & Win/ME machine on it. One day, my ISP had a conniption. When it came back, all was fine with the XP and ME machine. However the 98 machine can't find the DHCP provided DNS (neither the primary or secondary DNS)nor the gateway. I have full access from and to the...

No contact is listed in the Contacts area of outlook express. I have checked the Contacts Checkbox in the View- Layout Menu. Please anybody help. Koshy

I have a Win98SE networked to a WinXP for access to my ISP. The 98 insists on dialing the ISP all the time. Can't get it to stop. I have Process Explorer, but it doesn't show what is doing it. Disabling Norton doesn't help. Only thing that will stop it for sure is disabling the...

I have an Intel Pentium III 450MHz Processor. Windows 98, 128MB SDRAM. 13 Gb Hard drive We are networking 2 PC's and 1 Laptop. The main PC is running Windows 98SE and is connected to a Belkin modem plus router ADSL 802 11G.

I have a small LAN setup consisting of a router, a PC running WIN98SE and two PC's running WINXP Home. I can access the internet from all three PC's and can share folders, files and a printer on the two XP PC's. On the XP PC's: Network Places on the XP PC's shows shared resources on all three. ...

I just got a wireless router to share our broadband internet. I have set everything up and can access the internet on both computers but can not access one computers shared files from the other computer. I have in the network neighborhood my computer but not the other computer and it is the same on...

PLease direct me to the correct forum if this is not it. Here is my error message. It is an IBM 600 laptop running 98SE with office 95 application. It is on a home network. I get it with all applications not just WORD and the screen freezes if I am trying to access the network printer. I find...

What exactly do I need to do to set up a home network for all three OSs? I am routing it through a Linksys router. I tried following the directions in the Help menu, but it didn't seem to work. Thanks, Joe