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September 13th, 2004 19:00
Network Windows 95 with Windows XP
I am trying to connect my new Dell machine running under Windows XP Home Edition with my old Sony machine running under Windows 95. I have a Belkin Ethernet 4-port Cable/DSL Gateway Router between the two machines and each is connected via a RJ45 Ethernet Networking Cable. My new Dell machine already had an Ethernet card installed. I installed a Linksys 10/100 EtherFast PCI adapter in my old Sony machine and installed the driver. I access the internet via a dial up connection on both machines and do not have either a cable or DSL connection at this time. In esance I am using the router just to create a LAN for right now. I talked to the people at Belkin and they told me that under my configuration no software setup was required for their router. I ran the Network Wizard on the XP machine. Then I manually confugured the network on the 95 machine since the floppy setup disk created from the XP Wizard is only good on Windows 98 systems or better. This setup infromation I got from various sources on the internet.
Now for the problem: Neither machine can "see" each other. Clicking on Network Neighborhood on the Sony 95 machine shows only the Sony machine. Clicking on My Network Places on the Dell XP machine gives me a blank screen. What I am able to do is to "ping" the router and the Sony machine from the Dell machine. I also can "ping" the router from the Sony machine but not the Dell machine. To me this means that both network cards, the connecting cables and the Belkin router are operating OK. I believe there is some small detail I am overlooking that will clear up the problem but I am not sure what it is. Is there anybody out there that has accomplished this successfully ?
volcano11
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September 13th, 2004 19:00
You should be able to get this to work. Do the following:
1. Make sure all computers are in the same workgroup and have unique names on the network
2. Make sure all firewalls are disabled while setting things up. In particular make sure that Windows XP's built-in firewall is disabled on the local area connection.
3. Make sure the NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers.
4. Make sure file and printer sharing is enabled on both machines and that drives and/or folders have been designated as shared.
5. If the Windows 95/98/ME computers have Client for Microsoft Networks as the primary network logon, make sure that the proper username and password are entered when these machines boot. If Windows logon is the primary network logon, make sure that either a null password is used or that the correct password is used when booting these computers. Hitting the cancel button at the password prompt may prevent network connectivity.
Steve