MolsonMan007
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Hello, here is my problem.
I'm taking a course in which I use a laptop computer. I have been in the course for over two years and during this time I have networked this laptop to my desktop many, many times. Recently I had to exchange my laptop at school for another one. The day before I switched I hooked my computers up together to back up some files to my desktop and could not get them to connect. Everything was the same as it has always been (No Networking settings were changed) and I checked the cable to make sure it was fastened properly.
I finally gave up on it and went ahead with the laptop exchange. Now I went through the settings and again I cannot get the computers to see each other for some reason.
Both computers run w/ Windows 98. Both have TCP/IP protocols. I set the desktop I.P. to 192.168.100.1 and the laptop to 192.168.100.2. both subnet masks are set to 255.255.255.0. The network 'workgroup' names are identical on both computers and the network cable has been checked many times to make sure it wasn't loose. File sharing is checked on.
I have a feeling the problem may be with my desktop? (I had problems in the past with conflicting IRQ's and such, although windows does not find any problems with my NIC) The reason is that on my desktop when I d-click Entire Network (In Network Neighbourhood) it comes up with an "Unable to browse network" error message. I went through the entire troubleshooting guide in windows and was unable to resolve this problem.
If anybody has any suggestions or needs more information about my problem please reply, and thanx for taking the time to read this novel.
MolsonMan
I'm taking a course in which I use a laptop computer. I have been in the course for over two years and during this time I have networked this laptop to my desktop many, many times. Recently I had to exchange my laptop at school for another one. The day before I switched I hooked my computers up together to back up some files to my desktop and could not get them to connect. Everything was the same as it has always been (No Networking settings were changed) and I checked the cable to make sure it was fastened properly.
I finally gave up on it and went ahead with the laptop exchange. Now I went through the settings and again I cannot get the computers to see each other for some reason.
Both computers run w/ Windows 98. Both have TCP/IP protocols. I set the desktop I.P. to 192.168.100.1 and the laptop to 192.168.100.2. both subnet masks are set to 255.255.255.0. The network 'workgroup' names are identical on both computers and the network cable has been checked many times to make sure it wasn't loose. File sharing is checked on.
I have a feeling the problem may be with my desktop? (I had problems in the past with conflicting IRQ's and such, although windows does not find any problems with my NIC) The reason is that on my desktop when I d-click Entire Network (In Network Neighbourhood) it comes up with an "Unable to browse network" error message. I went through the entire troubleshooting guide in windows and was unable to resolve this problem.
If anybody has any suggestions or needs more information about my problem please reply, and thanx for taking the time to read this novel.
MolsonMan