Windows 2000 Professional File & Print Sharing with
existing Windows 95 LAN
I would appreciate some direction with regard to adding
File and Print Sharing between a new Windows 2000
Professional O/S PC and two existing File and Print
Sharing Windows 95 O/S PCs which use a hub. I have
established the W2KP O/S PC NIC H/W connectivity with the
existing hub. But, the W2KP O/S PC is unable to see the
W95 O/S PC's and vice versa.
Thank you for your assistance!
John,
There's a lot of details about your LAN that you omitted, so I'm going
to make a guess at what you need to do. Please forgive me if I'm
being needlessly detailed here.
Assuming that you have cabling working between the three computers,
your problem is most likely network protocol. Win9x computers
natively use Netbeui, and WinNT2KXP use NBT (Netbios over TCP/IP).
What protocol you use should be determined to what you want to do with
your LAN.
Netbeui is a non-routable protocol, which means it cannot be seen on
the internet, and will not expose your computers. If you're going to
connect your LAN to the internet without a router, you can add Netbeui
to your Win2K computer, and bind File and Print Sharing to it.
If you're going to connect your LAN to the internet thru a router
(with just 3 computers the cost is negligible), or not connect to the
internet at all, then you should enable NBT on the 2 Win9x computers,
and use NBT for your LAN.
Start here for a good tutorial, with details:
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp
Once you get the protocols matching, make sure you don't have a
firewall on any of the computers blocking name resolution. In order
for the master browser to allow you to "see" each computer from
another computer, any firewalls you might use on the LAN must trust
all other computers.
Remember to login to the Win9x computers using an account / password
identical to one setup on the Win2K computer (don't hit Esc when asked
for userid).
Cheers,
Chuck
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