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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I
formated one of the computers and reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus. This computer was working before and could log on to the network. before the It promted me at startup for a username and password. The OS autodetected the old ISA erthernet card (3com etherlink III isa) and installed it. I configured the network with a ip 192.168.0.10 and mask 255.255.255.0 similarly to the other machines, but all I see in the network neighborhood is the icon with the globe that says ENTIRE NETWORK. What can be the problem? Is it perhaps that the network card does not have the correct drivers? It looks like its installed ok.... Or could it be that I do not log in with the user-password prompt of windows 98SE? For some reason its set to autologon... if you dont log on with a username and password do you get only the entire network icon? Sombody told me how to disable the autologon in the registry and I will do that when I get back to those computers But I am trying to figure this out beforehand. and another question why does windows 98 have a username and password when windows starts? What is the use of that? What happens if 2 computers on the same network login with the same username and password? PLEASE HELP! -- |
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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
"Kenny S" wrote in message ... On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I formated one of the computers and reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus. This computer was working before and could log on to the network. before the It promted me at startup for a username and password. The OS autodetected the old ISA erthernet card (3com etherlink III isa) and installed it. I configured the network with a ip 192.168.0.10 and mask 255.255.255.0 similarly to the other machines, but all I see in the network neighborhood is the icon with the globe that says ENTIRE NETWORK. What can be the problem? Is it perhaps that the network card does not have the correct drivers? It looks like its installed ok.... Or could it be that I do not log in with the user-password prompt of windows 98SE? For some reason its set to autologon... if you dont log on with a username and password do you get only the entire network icon? Sombody told me how to disable the autologon in the registry and I will do that when I get back to those computers But I am trying to figure this out beforehand. and another question why does windows 98 have a username and password when windows starts? What is the use of that? What happens if 2 computers on the same network login with the same username and password? PLEASE HELP! If you are using an old ISA nic ...check what resources it is using in device manager (IRQ,base address) and there is usually a "setup" program for the older nics that you can set the nic's IRQ, Base address to match what windows has assigned it. hope that helps |
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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
Kenny S wrote:
On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I formated one of the computers and reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus. That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
It was not silly.
--- "Plato" |@|.| wrote in message ... Kenny S wrote: On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I formated one of the computers and reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus. That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
I recently had a similar problem in configuring three PC's with XP on a LAN. The problem for me was the Internet Firewall was enabled on one of the machines.
-- Noel O'K "Kenny S" wrote: On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I formated one of the computers and reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus. This computer was working before and could log on to the network. before the It promted me at startup for a username and password. The OS autodetected the old ISA erthernet card (3com etherlink III isa) and installed it. I configured the network with a ip 192.168.0.10 and mask 255.255.255.0 similarly to the other machines, but all I see in the network neighborhood is the icon with the globe that says ENTIRE NETWORK. What can be the problem? Is it perhaps that the network card does not have the correct drivers? It looks like its installed ok.... Or could it be that I do not log in with the user-password prompt of windows 98SE? For some reason its set to autologon... if you dont log on with a username and password do you get only the entire network icon? Sombody told me how to disable the autologon in the registry and I will do that when I get back to those computers But I am trying to figure this out beforehand. and another question why does windows 98 have a username and password when windows starts? What is the use of that? What happens if 2 computers on the same network login with the same username and password? PLEASE HELP! -- |
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I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood
On 15 Jul 2004 14:59:18 -0500, Plato |@|.| wrote:
That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files. Who said it was a boot sector virus? Very few of those around these days so it probably isn't/wasn't. I agree, though, re-formatting is overkill and is no guarantee that the virus is gone. Jim. |
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