wolfworx
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Here's the problem. I have three computers on a home peer-to-peer network. Call them Alice, Betty and Dorcas in same workgroup. Alice and Betty are running Win98 SE and Dorcas is running Win 2000 Prof.
Until yesterday all of them were talking together without problems, i.e. file and print sharing worked OK.
Yesterday on boot-up Betty was not being recognized by the other two computers nor was Betty recognizing them (Dorcas and Alice still got along fine).
I have gone through all of the standard trouble shooting steps to solve this problem. I have shut down and restarted all three systems in various sequences. I have checked and double checked cables. The hub indicates a connection for Betty. But betty cannot see or be seen by the other two.
I have virtually eliminated hardware as a problem. I installed another hard disk in the Betty Box with Win98SE and named it Ginger. Ginger works! I replaced Ginger with Betty... same as before.
Clearly there is some hidden problem here with the network software installation for Betty. But what? I could, of course, do a complete reinstallation of Win98, but that would not get at the cause. It would not answer WHY.
Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this mystery?
Until yesterday all of them were talking together without problems, i.e. file and print sharing worked OK.
Yesterday on boot-up Betty was not being recognized by the other two computers nor was Betty recognizing them (Dorcas and Alice still got along fine).
I have gone through all of the standard trouble shooting steps to solve this problem. I have shut down and restarted all three systems in various sequences. I have checked and double checked cables. The hub indicates a connection for Betty. But betty cannot see or be seen by the other two.
I have virtually eliminated hardware as a problem. I installed another hard disk in the Betty Box with Win98SE and named it Ginger. Ginger works! I replaced Ginger with Betty... same as before.
Clearly there is some hidden problem here with the network software installation for Betty. But what? I could, of course, do a complete reinstallation of Win98, but that would not get at the cause. It would not answer WHY.
Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this mystery?