Yet another Stpid Mistake with home networking

[Guest]

I have a Win2k machine connected to the net via DSL, I recently acquired another PCwith Win98FE and or Win2000 on it. I am using a 4 port hub, and dsl modem to access the Internet.
Problem is, when I installed 2k I went into every item and disabled anything that even remotely looked like it might let something from the net see my Win2k machine as a server. I trashed or disabled all the Dcom and Dcom+ as well as RPC services and a few other things.
The problem is now I want to connect my Win98FE machine to my Win2k machine in order to share both files, printers, and ICS.
I can't even see my own PC under the network neighborhood, nor can I see the other machine (Win98) and can't seem to configure my Win2k machine to even see the Win98 machine. I've gone thru the forum and can't find anyone dumb enough to do what I did to a Win2k Pro setup lol
Is this possible to resolve without reinstalling Win2k? It took me a week of downloading broadband and installing apps to get the Win2k machine up and going again, this is one experience I do not want to repeat.
Can anyone direct me to a step by step guide to correct all the things I need to connect my Win98 to the Win2k Pro with file and printer sharing, as well as being able to ICS?
I have a Lan card showing in the networking, as well as a PPOe network connection that I know gets me to the internet via the hub to my DSL modem.
I am Win98 certified, yet I can't seem to get a handle on this one, I've dug thru the Technet and Knowledgebase extensively and can't find anything about stupid disconnecting all the sharing functions in Win2k Pro. I have been fighting this about 4-5 hours a day for 3 weeks, and I finally decided to give up and humble myself and ask for help.

Very Humbly I ask that you reply to me via email or here,
sincerely the dumbest tech on the planet

 

[robert]

enable :
DHCP client
DNS client
server services
workstation services
computer browser

and the services these are dependant on
then follow this guide
www.pctechnicians.ca
to s etup the workgroup
GUIDES
workgroup setup guide


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Robert Vegas

I have a Win2k machine connected to the net via DSL, I recently acquired

another PCwith Win98FE and or Win2000 on it. I am using a 4 port hub, and
dsl modem to access the Internet.

Problem is, when I installed 2k I went into every item and disabled

anything that even remotely looked like it might let something from the net
see my Win2k machine as a server. I trashed or disabled all the Dcom and
Dcom+ as well as RPC services and a few other things.

The problem is now I want to connect my Win98FE machine to my Win2k

machine in order to share both files, printers, and ICS.

I can't even see my own PC under the network neighborhood, nor can I see

the other machine (Win98) and can't seem to configure my Win2k machine to
even see the Win98 machine. I've gone thru the forum and can't find anyone
dumb enough to do what I did to a Win2k Pro setup lol

Is this possible to resolve without reinstalling Win2k? It took me a week

of downloading broadband and installing apps to get the Win2k machine up and
going again, this is one experience I do not want to repeat.

Can anyone direct me to a step by step guide to correct all the things I

need to connect my Win98 to the Win2k Pro with file and printer sharing, as
well as being able to ICS?

I have a Lan card showing in the networking, as well as a PPOe network

connection that I know gets me to the internet via the hub to my DSL modem.

I am Win98 certified, yet I can't seem to get a handle on this one, I've

dug thru the Technet and Knowledgebase extensively and can't find anything
about stupid disconnecting all the sharing functions in Win2k Pro. I have
been fighting this about 4-5 hours a day for 3 weeks, and I finally decided
to give up and humble myself and ask for help.

 

[Guest]

Robert,
Thanks very very much. Your list laong with the address in pctecnicians.ca is right on the money. Now this tme I will secure it right with a little book I picked up by Stefan Norberg called securing Windows NT/2000 for the Internet. I think by applying this properly I can secure my main pc as the perimeter PC in the network and keep it right in line. Your a lifesasver, kudos