Can't access drives on another PC

[Noam Avnery]

Hi.
I had 2 PC's, Win/ME and Win/2000.
I shared C and D drives on each of them.
Now I upgraded the Win/ME to XP Pro and lost the network connections.
I expected some problems since the Upgrade Advisor warned me about
NetBEUI before the upgrade. In the LAN properties I have:
- Client for MS networks
- File and printer sharing..
- TCP/IP
On the Win/2000 I have the 3 items above and NetBEUI.
Please advice.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I had 2 PC's, Win/ME and Win/2000.
I shared C and D drives on each of them.
Now I upgraded the Win/ME to XP Pro and lost the network connections.
I expected some problems since the Upgrade Advisor warned me about
NetBEUI before the upgrade. In the LAN properties I have:
- Client for MS networks
- File and printer sharing..
- TCP/IP
On the Win/2000 I have the 3 items above and NetBEUI.

Noam,

normally you don't need NetBEUI and should uninstall it from the
other computer. Perhaps this already solves your problem.

If not, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Noam Avnery]

Noam,

normally you don't need NetBEUI and should uninstall it from the
other computer. Perhaps this already solves your problem.

If not, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

Thanks.
Solved - turns out that the sharings were lost during the upgrade
{blush}.
Well, so many things have changed, and I didn't see that at first.

Also, I removed NetBEUI, but I just don't understand how the shares
work without it.. I always thought it's NetBIOS/NetBEUI..
Can anyone explain this issue?
TIA

 

[Chuck]

Thanks.
Solved - turns out that the sharings were lost during the upgrade
{blush}.
Well, so many things have changed, and I didn't see that at first.

Also, I removed NetBEUI, but I just don't understand how the shares
work without it.. I always thought it's NetBIOS/NetBEUI..
Can anyone explain this issue?
TIA

Noam,

Here are a couple good articles about NetBEUI vs NetBIOS (remember, WinXP is
WinNT V5.1):
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=128233>
<http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20000517S0009>
<http://www.ultratech-llc.com/BrainWave/TechDocs/Resolution.html>

BTW, Noam, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address
mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a
bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - read this article.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Also, I removed NetBEUI, but I just don't understand how the shares
work without it.. I always thought it's NetBIOS/NetBEUI..
Can anyone explain this issue?

Noam,

now it's NetBIOS / TCP/IP. Works just as well.

The NetBIOS over TCP/IP Helper service does it, short name:
NetBT.

Hans-Georg

 

[Noam Avnery]

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks for all the replies.

The translation might kill this but it's something like:
"Being a paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me"