I get only the ENTIRE NETWORK icon in network neiborhood

[Kenny S]

On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I
formated one of the computers and
reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus.
This computer was working before and could log on to the network.
before the It promted me at startup for a username and password.
The OS autodetected the old ISA erthernet card (3com etherlink III isa) and
installed it.
I configured the network with a ip 192.168.0.10 and mask 255.255.255.0
similarly to the other machines, but all I see in the
network neighborhood is the icon with the globe that says ENTIRE NETWORK.

What can be the problem? Is it perhaps that the network card does not have
the correct drivers? It looks like its installed ok....
Or could it be that I do not log in with the user-password prompt of windows
98SE?
For some reason its set to autologon...
if you dont log on with a username and password do you get only the entire
network icon?

Sombody told me how to disable the autologon in the registry and I will do
that when I get back to those computers

But I am trying to figure this out beforehand.

and another question why does windows 98 have a username and password when
windows starts?
What is the use of that? What happens if 2 computers on the same network
login with the same username and password?


PLEASE HELP!


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[Haggis]

On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I
formated one of the computers and
reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus.
This computer was working before and could log on to the network.
before the It promted me at startup for a username and password.
The OS autodetected the old ISA erthernet card (3com etherlink III isa) and
installed it.
I configured the network with a ip 192.168.0.10 and mask 255.255.255.0
similarly to the other machines, but all I see in the
network neighborhood is the icon with the globe that says ENTIRE NETWORK.

What can be the problem? Is it perhaps that the network card does not have
the correct drivers? It looks like its installed ok....
Or could it be that I do not log in with the user-password prompt of windows
98SE?
For some reason its set to autologon...
if you dont log on with a username and password do you get only the entire
network icon?

Sombody told me how to disable the autologon in the registry and I will do
that when I get back to those computers

But I am trying to figure this out beforehand.

and another question why does windows 98 have a username and password when
windows starts?
What is the use of that? What happens if 2 computers on the same network
login with the same username and password?


PLEASE HELP!

If you are using an old ISA nic ...check what resources it is using in
device manager (IRQ,base address) and there is usually a "setup" program for
the older nics that you can set the nic's IRQ, Base address to match what
windows has assigned it.

hope that helps

 

[Plato]

On a network with windows SE computers and one linux samba server, I
formated one of the computers and
reinstalled windows 98SE because of a virus.

That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector
viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files.

 

[Kenny S]

It was not silly.

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That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector
viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files.

 

[James Egan]

That was silly. Especially since formatting doesn't touch boot sector
viruses in dos 7.1 aka the win98SE startup files.

Who said it was a boot sector virus? Very few of those around these
days so it probably isn't/wasn't. I agree, though, re-formatting is
overkill and is no guarantee that the virus is gone.


Jim.