NETBEUI in Win2000

[Jay Nix]

I am presently running MS WIN2000 5.00.2195 Service
Pack
4 on a laptop. we have win98 machines that are easily
NETBEUI enabled and easily networked to each other. I am
unable to network these 98's to connect directly to this
win2000 machine using a cross cable.


I try to make sure that the win2000 machine is NETBEUI
enavbled but all i have is NETBIOS using DHCP

Nowhere in 2000 do I see any way to choose NETBEUI "enable"


could you please help by explaining how to
get the 98 and the 2000 to see each other connected
directly through a cross cable connected to the same COM
port that both machines use for LAN internet access...???

The only big limitation to this question is that I cannot
change the settings on the 98 machhines, (There are
hundreds of them out in the field already NETBEUI'd
enabled) and I can only change the settings on the Win
2000 laptop hence my hope that I could somehow get WIN2000
to be NETBEUI "enabled""


I would dearly appreciate any and all insights that you
could share.

thanks in advance

Jay Nix
(e-mail address removed)

 

[G]

Netbeui is not installed by default on W2K - you need to install it. Why
anyone would do that, I don't know. But to each his own.