>Hi everyone,
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>I posted the paragraph below in the Windows 98 forum, but I'm not sure if it's active so I'm going to go ahead and place it here also. Since the last post I added a hub between the two machines and while all the lights are green and there are no conflicts, I still cannot see a second computer in the network on either machine :(
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>Renoir
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>(posted earlier)
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>I'm trying to connect a laptop using a 10/100 3Com PCM/CIA card to a 10/100 3Com card in my desktop PC. I have two cards in the desktop - the first card is used to access an ADSL line and the second was supposed to give the laptop access to the desktop. I never been comfortable (nor successful) in trying to do anything related to network settings, configurations, protocals and all the other stuff that I desperately need right now. All three cards check out fine in the device manager and I've gotten both machines to at least show themselves (and appropriate shared drive) in the network neighborhood, but I just can't seem to get them to see each other. I even went out and purchased a developer's Windows 98 book and all it did was encourage me to pay to have this done. Can anyone give me a hand or some references that could help? I really didn't think this would be that difficult...

Well... my first question is how are they connected? If you are connecting on machine to the other without using a HUB you need to put a twist in one of the pairs... I think it's 2 and 3 but I don't remember off hand. If you are using a HUB the wiring shouldn't be an issue.

What protocals are you using? You need to make sure you have the same on both machines... for example TCP/IP or netBUI.

Also, (for me anyway) unless you have something shared on each machine you will not see it in the Neighboorhood... but, if you say each machine sees itself then you must have something shared.

If you are using TCP/IP can you ping the other machine?

If you are only using NetBEUI choose RUN from the start button and type in \\machinename (name of the other machine) and see if you are able to see it's drive. Also, you can use Find Computer to do this.

Alot of times, things are working, but a small thing keeps them from the browse list. That NN browse list is picky. As a matter of fact, I just noticed I can't see my Samba server in there, but I have a drive mapped to it, so I know it is up and happy.

BOb