"Steve Winograd [MVP]" wrote in message
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In article , "Don Phillipson"
wrote:
Above message displays in Win98 / Drive / Properties / Sharing
window and seems to prevent networking . . .
Is this a standard Win98 problem with a standard cure?

In Win98, go to Control Panel Network Access Control and specify
share-level access control. User-level access control requires a
server network and isn't available in a workgroup network like yours.

Aha -- an undocumented feature (?) but easily fixed: only
this made the system unstable, reporting at reboot unable to find
NDIS.VXD
NDIS2SUP.VXD -- not on disk
VNETBIOS.VXD -- not on disk.
NDIS.VXD was in c:/windows/vcm thus easily copied to c:\windows\system
and this enabled reboot -- with complaints the other two VXD files were
not found. Hence supplementary questions:

1. There were earlier problems installing Win98SE on this
2.8 GHz PC, eventually solved by repetition. (At the 6th
or 8th attempt at installation, the second reboot occurred
OK i.e. did no encounter the NDIS error.) I have the MS
NDIS fix, which reported it did not run on this PC. This
has made me reluctant to attempt any later reinstallation
of the OS (previously done every 18 months or so.) Only
when this month I tried to network did problems appear.
Helpful comments?

2. Aiming (#1) to restore a rock solid OS and then (#2)
to network via wireless card as in the OP, I could simply
remove with REGEDIT the keys calling the other two VXD
files which are
NDIS2SUP.VXD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\InstalledFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\NDIS
VNETBIOS.VXD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\InstalledFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\VNETBIOS
and then rebuild the network from scratch. (The Livingston and Straub
"Secrets" manual got the network started, but I don't think it mentioned
the difference between user sharing and server shariing: so I shall read
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm carefully.)
For task #1 (OS) is REGEDIT a practical idea or should I try first
to get the network active and stable?

Many thanks again
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)