Strange home network problem

[Buzz]

Are you using a crossover cable? For direct connect (no
hub) I believe you need a crossover cable, not a straight
thru cable, which you would use to connect to a hub.
Assuming the right cable, you might try Netbeui instead of
TCPIP for your protocol. I spent several days trying to
get Win9x machines to talk to XP machines with TCPIP, with
the same level of success as you've had. Then I
remembered what a network pro told me many years
ago, "Netbeui will make anything talk to anything!" It
certainly worked for me. Everyone seems to disagree with
me, but the results speak for themselves. See the "ME and
XP Networking" post from just before your post.

 

[Guest]

It's true Netbeui is the universal language it seems.I use it combined with
tcp/IP. I remember with my old windows 98 laptop. All I really had to do was
install all of the common protocols and make sure they were installed on both
machines. Specify the 98 machine and leave the xp machine static. I don't
think that they were made to talk to each other. Probably some way for
microsoft to try to force you to use xp.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

It's true Netbeui is the universal language it seems.I use it combined with
tcp/IP.

Eskimo, Buzz,

NetBEUI is obsolete and never needed.

Please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm for
a list of possible causes why TCP/IP does not work for you. The
cause is usually a misconfiguration.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Eskimo, Buzz,

NetBEUI is obsolete and never needed.

Please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm for
a list of possible causes why TCP/IP does not work for you. The
cause is usually a misconfiguration.

Hans-Georg

Thanks for the advice people, i shall try all of the advice, and come back
for more if nothing works LOL

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Thanks for the advice people, i shall try all of the advice, and come back
for more if nothing works LOL

Allan,

wish I knew all the answers! Meanwhile I do what I can.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Hi Eskimo

I think I have the same problem you had with your win 98 baser notebook. I
have an Armada notebook currently running win 98, and I need to connect it
with my PC running Win XP, but my notebook doesn´t have the enthrenet board,
so I´m trying to connetc both machines using thata "laplink" cable, that is a
serial cable. I had sucess when connecting my notebook with other machine
using win 98, but i can´t connet it with win XP.

Do u know what shoul I do?
Best Regards, Felipe

"Eskimo" escreveu:

 

[Guest]

Hi Eskimo

I think I have the same problem you had with your win 98 baser notebook. I
have an Armada notebook currently running win 98, and I need to connect it
with my PC running Win XP, but my notebook doesn´t have the enthrenet board,
so I´m trying to connetc both machines using thata "laplink" cable, that is a
serial cable. I had sucess when connecting my notebook with other machine
using win 98, but i can´t connet it with win XP.

Do u know what shoul I do?
Best Regards, Felipe

"Eskimo" escreveu:

 

[Guest]

Hi Eskimo

I think I have the same problem you had with your win 98 baser notebook. I
have an Armada notebook currently running win 98, and I need to connect it
with my PC running Win XP, but my notebook doesn´t have the enthrenet board,
so I´m trying to connetc both machines using thata "laplink" cable, that is a
serial cable. I had sucess when connecting my notebook with other machine
using win 98, but i can´t connet it with win XP.

Do u know what shoul I do?
Best Regards, Felipe

"Eskimo" escreveu:

 

[Guest]

Hi Eskimo

I think I have the same problem you had with your win 98 baser notebook. I
have an Armada notebook currently running win 98, and I need to connect it
with my PC running Win XP, but my notebook doesn´t have the enthrenet board,
so I´m trying to connetc both machines using thata "laplink" cable, that is a
serial cable. I had sucess when connecting my notebook with other machine
using win 98, but i can´t connet it with win XP.

Do u know what shoul I do?
Best Regards, Felipe

"Eskimo" escreveu: