Re: Home Net Probs - AGAIN!!

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From: Martin (invalid.vk2umj_at_invalid.yahoo.com.au)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:30:46 +1100

"Martin" <invalid.vk2umj@invalid.yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:33otepF41pdtpU1@individual.net...
> HELP CAREY!!!
>
> I am about to bash the crap out of all these computers!!!
>
> Recall the problems we recently fixed, well, it's back! I connected up
> the third PC with 98SE in it, and followed your site instructions EXACTLY
> again, but it still wouldn't network. A check of ipconfig confirmed that
> the subnet mask was 255.0.0.0 as per the previous problem, so I reset the
> router/modem again - now both 98SE machines are showing me a subnet mask
> of 255.0.0.0 and I'm back to the original problem!!!
>
> In 98 Network Neighbourhood, both 98SE machines show up in each others NN,
> but the XP machine doesn't. On XP machine I can map the shared folder of
> the 98SE machine that we had working last, but I can't add the folders of
> the new 98SE machine...
>
> I see the problem is that subnet mask, but why does it keep going back to
> 255.0.0.0 on the 98SE machines?? In the router setting it is set to
> 255.255.255.0, and I have reset the modem/router several times with both a
> standard reboot and default back to factory settings - no change.
>
> Suggestions????????????

Further to this - I disconnected the third PC (98SE), reset the router and
rebooted the first two computers, and the network came back to normal. I
then reconnected the third PC and rebooted it, and it came back as having
been assigned a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 Why is this happening???? The
lease time was the time of the reboot so I presume it should have assigned
the same subnet mask as had already been assigned to the other two PC's??

The router is a NetComm NB1300 ADSL Modem/Router with firmware version
V6.109.2SD

All 3 PC's have been setup as per Careys network config pages, including
having ZA uninstalled during setup. If I try to manually assign a static IP
address to the 98SE machines they lose connection to the internet and
network, so that doesn't seem to be a solution unless someone can suggest
how this can be overcome?

>
>

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