Re: Need a Plan to Link WinXP PC with Win95 PC to Share Internet and Resources
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:52:23 -0400
jaykchan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Sounds like the XP PC has the name translation problem, not the W9x
>> PC. Can the XP PC ping www.whitehouse.gov? If not, then it probably
>> has bad DNS params; if ping-by-name works for WAN nodes but not for
>> LAN nodes, then I'd suspect that NetBIOS over TCP/IP was not
>> selected on the XP PC.
>
> No, the problem was definitely in the Win95 PC. I have replaced Win95
> in that PC with Win98SE. And the PC has no problem getting IP address
> from DHCP right after installing Win98SE and the device driver for the
> network card without any further tweaking. And the WinXP PC and the
> Win98 PC can see each other and share resources.
>
> I am glad that this problem is over.
>
> Jay Chan
Hi - glad you got it resolved. I don't bother doing anything with Win95
anymore. Even Win98 is ancient stuff and I don't recommend it - but I guess
if I had to pick, I'd choose Win98SE over WinME.... my true preference being
WinXP.
.
- Follow-Ups:
- References:
- Prev by Date: Re: DSL connectivity problems - was fine previously
- Next by Date: Re: xp won't resolve domain names
- Previous by thread: Re: Need a Plan to Link WinXP PC with Win95 PC to Share Internet and Resources
- Next by thread: Re: Need a Plan to Link WinXP PC with Win95 PC to Share Internet and Resources
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
