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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:12 pm    Post subject: Need basic networking advice. Reply with quote

First of all I am a total newbie concerning Networking but after reading
various posts and items on the Microsoft Knowledge base I decided to try
and Netrwork 2 of my PCs via Belkin Crossover cable 5e.

This is what I did:

Both PCs with NICs installed and connected by Belkin Crossover Cable 5e


HOST is named FSMASTER and forms part of workgroup WORKGROUP -
This was done under System Properties\Computer Name - The Domain
entry left empty.

CLIENT is named FSSLAVE and forms part of workgroup WORKGROUP -
This was done under System Properties\Computer Name - The Domain
entry left empty.

Client for Microsoft Netrworks not installed on either PC for these NICs
The host and client NICs are only using TCP/IP protocol and under
properties have been assigned IP 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2
respectively and with a common Subnet 255.255.255.0 - The DNS entries
in the properties remain blank. I have not touched any other NIC settings.

Both PCs show the NICs installed with no errors at 100 Mbps.

I then installed ICS using Microsoft's instructions published in their Common knowledge base and this seems to be working well on both PCs.

The problem is that whenever I try to map a Network Drive I get an error
telling me Network path cannot be found and if I ping either PC from the
DOS prompt it tells me ping is an unrecognised command. I'm sure I
must have done something wrong here. Any advice or links greatly appreciated and apologies if this has been asked before.

Thanks

Kim
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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Ping' is an unrecognised command? That's strange - are you sure you're entering it correctly? If you're on the Master computer, and trying to ping the Slave computer, it should look like this:

Code:
ping 192.168.0.2


As for being unable to map a network drive - do your computers appear in 'My Network Places'? If not, one possibility is because you are using a firewall. I had this problem a while ago when setting up a friend of mine's home network. I had configured everything, but couldn't get access from one computer to another computer's shared folders. It turned out it was a configuration in Norton's firewall.
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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Insomniac


Will check those things you mentioned although I did at the DOS prompt
(c:\) ping 192.168.0.2 from the Host and the response was not a recognised
command.

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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KimB wrote:

Client for Microsoft Netrworks not installed on either PC for these NICs
The host and client NICs are only using TCP/IP protocol and under

you need to have client for ms networks and file + print sharing and tcp/ip installed Wink


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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MattA wrote:
you need to have client for ms networks and file + print sharing and tcp/ip installed Wink


D'Oh! Missed that part. Embarassed

Matt to the rescue again.
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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks once again....will look into all this as soon as I get home tonight.
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