Boot times

[rapid1]

when I install my network card and set up my workgroup, my boot times get way too long. Is there a way to get past this? I use tcp/ip for dial up and netbeui for peer to peer on win98...any scripts I can modify? why does it do this?

thx

[grunt]

There are 2 SAM files within Windows called HOSTS and LMHOSTS. You can edit these 2 with all the machine names and ip#s from you LAN and it will help boot time a little. Just edit the hosts file and it tells you how to specify the info with in the file.

[rapid1]

thx for the info grunt...do you or anyone else know of a good website that may elaborate on this aspect of networking? such as assigning local ip numbers and the effect on dial-ups and tcp/ip?

[SpookyEddy]

If you assign an IP address under network properties , instead of leaving win98 to allocate one on-the-fly, your boot times should return to normal.

Hope this helps

[rapid1]

it did, and thx...I gave my whole network local ip adresses and dont have to use Netbeui anymore either...this keeps the dial up from going off all the time in tcp/ip when I am networked...