AACF
04-06-2003, 04:05 AM
As this is my first posting I will try to keep this brief. In saying this, I'm not really looking for an answer more or less sharing an experience I had in a small Office.
Systems:
2 x Compaq Armadas, (1x Win98SE, 1x WinXP Home Upgrade)
1 x Tower, P4 etc, (WinXP Home Upgrade)
The 2 Uprades were from Win98 ? by a previous "techo" to Win XPHome. Personally I'm not a big fan of upgrading any OSto another, prefer clean installs.
Situation: Peer 2 Peer Network, 8 port 10/100 switch/hub, Cat 5 twisted pair data cabling.
LT1xp-up (laptop1 winxp upgrade) could see and acces files, printers and ping PC1xp-up (tower winxp upgrade) but could not see LT2w98se or ping, however PC1xp-up could not access even access denied to LT1xp-up but could talk to LT2w98se.
No firewalls or firewall software, all de-activated in so called XP machines. As soon as I'd make any changes to settings, I even uninstalled any updates of XP's SP1 knowing some issues it causes, the systems would either stop talking altogether, or 2 systems would talk to each other but not to the 3rd system. I worked through every thing I know about networking, TCP/IP etc. I even researched what ever I could find on the net and it all basicly told me what I already knew.
I could go on and bore you telling what most of you already know about what to try what to uninstall what to install and configure to get the network up and running, the more I did the more that went wrong and this was a simple network too.
To cut the story short I UNINSTALLED WinXP Home From the upgraded Laptop (LT1xp-up). To my surprise on the 2nd reboot on the original OS Win98SE the netstart.bat file I created worked perfect. All systems seen and talked to each other. :) customers
Moral:
Win XP Home seems to have complicated simple things for simple people. Nothing real hard in networking more than 2 Systems in 1 small network with out a Domain Controller, unless.
Bloody Micro$oft
If anyone has any insight I'm more than happy to listen.
Regards,
Systems:
2 x Compaq Armadas, (1x Win98SE, 1x WinXP Home Upgrade)
1 x Tower, P4 etc, (WinXP Home Upgrade)
The 2 Uprades were from Win98 ? by a previous "techo" to Win XPHome. Personally I'm not a big fan of upgrading any OSto another, prefer clean installs.
Situation: Peer 2 Peer Network, 8 port 10/100 switch/hub, Cat 5 twisted pair data cabling.
LT1xp-up (laptop1 winxp upgrade) could see and acces files, printers and ping PC1xp-up (tower winxp upgrade) but could not see LT2w98se or ping, however PC1xp-up could not access even access denied to LT1xp-up but could talk to LT2w98se.
No firewalls or firewall software, all de-activated in so called XP machines. As soon as I'd make any changes to settings, I even uninstalled any updates of XP's SP1 knowing some issues it causes, the systems would either stop talking altogether, or 2 systems would talk to each other but not to the 3rd system. I worked through every thing I know about networking, TCP/IP etc. I even researched what ever I could find on the net and it all basicly told me what I already knew.
I could go on and bore you telling what most of you already know about what to try what to uninstall what to install and configure to get the network up and running, the more I did the more that went wrong and this was a simple network too.
To cut the story short I UNINSTALLED WinXP Home From the upgraded Laptop (LT1xp-up). To my surprise on the 2nd reboot on the original OS Win98SE the netstart.bat file I created worked perfect. All systems seen and talked to each other. :) customers
Moral:
Win XP Home seems to have complicated simple things for simple people. Nothing real hard in networking more than 2 Systems in 1 small network with out a Domain Controller, unless.
Bloody Micro$oft
If anyone has any insight I'm more than happy to listen.
Regards,