Networking Win2k

[daddy_4_eyes]

Anyone has any experience with it? Or links to a networking website?

I've done a bit already at my house. All three computers detect the network, but I can neither share files, nor see the other computers on the network. I'm getting a friend to come over and help set it up next week, but wanted to fast track it and fix it up myself.

Now, from what he's said I have to set up an account on the host computer for all the client computers. How do I do that? Any other hints would be appreciated.

 

[M29]

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/

Make sure you're using TCP/IP and make sure you have your bindings right.

I assume you're sharing the internet connection as well?

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Originally posted by M29
I assume you're sharing the internet connection as well?

We have dial-up, so at the moment I have no plans to share the net. But if I can get this network up and running I certainly plan to upgrade to broadband. But I'll cross that bridge when I get to it

Thx for the link btw.

 

[otaku]

Originally posted by daddy_4_eyes
We have dial-up, so at the moment I have no plans to share the net. But if I can get this network up and running I certainly plan to upgrade to broadband. But I'll cross that bridge when I get to it

Thx for the link btw.

make sure you are in the same workgroup.
make sure that a) either you have your IP address set to auto detect, or
b) you choose IP addresses in the area of 192.168.0.1 (for the host) and progressively from there.



if that doesnt work. go look at that website

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by daddy_4_eyes
Anyone has any experience with it? Or links to a networking website?

I've done a bit already at my house. All three computers detect the network, but I can neither share files, nor see the other computers on the network. I'm getting a friend to come over and help set it up next week, but wanted to fast track it and fix it up myself.

Now, from what he's said I have to set up an account on the host computer for all the client computers. How do I do that? Any other hints would be appreciated.

Have you shared your files? Do that by either right clicking on whatever drive or folder, click on sharing, then click on New Share if it's a drive or "share this folder" if it's a folder?

 

[Stucey]

Are connecting them via a hub, or directly?

When you directly connect 2 computers, you need to use a crossover cable, instead of just the straight through type.

Did you configue and run the network setup wizard on all the computers...

And yeah, make sure they are in the same workgroup.

 

[Mr Q]

Seeing as you have three computers I will assume you have a hub/switch to connect them. Firstly of course you should check that all the appropriate lights are on the hub and the network cards.

In Windows 2000:

1) Ensure that all the computers have TCP/IP turned on (if you've got default networking for Win2K it should be by default)

2) Check that all three machines are in the same IP address range. To check this, open a command prompt and type ipconfig. The resulting screen should tell you your network settings. The two lines you need to be concerned about are:
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.16
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
The computers should have the same subnet mask, and be in the same subnet (thats the 192.168.0 part of the address for the example above - if your subnet mask is 255.255.0.0 then it would only be the 192.168 part). ALSO ensure that the other part of the address (the .16 in this case) is unique for all three computers

If you select "Obtain an IP address automatically" in your settings on all the machines (and they are Win2K or above) then they should automatically get addresses starting with 169.254.-.-. These should be sufficient for your needs.

3) Check the Workgroup settings for your machines. They should all be the same. Right click on My Computer and go to Properties. Go to Network Identification and ensure that they all have the same entry under Workgroup. While there, ensure that all the computers have different names.

4) It will all be a lot easier if you make sure all the usernames and passwords match on all the computers.

If you've done all that then the network *should* work. If you still can't connect, note the IP address of the machine you want to talk to (not the one you're on, the one you want to talk to). To test if the network is working, you ping the machine. You do this at the command prompt as well:

C:\Downloads>ping 192.168.0.2

Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=125
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=125
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=125
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=125

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 0ms

If you get the above, then your network is working, just not your workgroup. To test file sharing, at a command prompt try
C:>net use X: \\192.168.0.2\c$
The command completed successfully

You could substitute the computer's name for the IP address, but if it doesn't work, try the IP address as well. If it asks you for a password, enter your password for the computer you are connecting to, not the computer you are using.

If this works, you should be able to access the other computer's C drive as X drive on the computer you are working on. If all this is OK, then your network is really working, just there is something a little wacky with your workgroup which I can't diagnose from here.

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Beauty, I got it working. I basically changed the IP's from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.0.x and all of a sudden its all up. I then used step 4 from Mr Q's help to check the network, and its up.

Thanks for the help guys. Much appreciated