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Hi,

I'm trying to set up printer sharing on a small network. Here's the
layout:

#1: 98SE with two shared printers attached, using an A/B switch (not my
setup, plan to change it in the future).
#2: XP Pro.
#3: Win 2000
#4: Laptop; dual boot WinME and Win 2000

Not using DHCP..all static IP addresses.

They all connect through a router with wireless cards.

Here are my two problems:

1) I can't connect to #1 (with the printers) from #3. When I set it up,
it worked fine and printed to the 98 box, but now there's no connection
at all. Pinging from #3 to #1 times out. I can successfully ping from
this box to the router and to other boxes on the network. However, I
can ping from #1 to #3.

2) On #4 (the dual boot laptop), I have not been able to access the
network at all from the ME side (can't ping anything except itself),
but works perfectly from the 2000 side. This tells me the network card
is OK. All the settings appear to be identical on the two OSs.

Could someone advise me as to what else I can look for to fix this?

Thanks,
Mike

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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up printer sharing on a small network. Here's the
> layout:
>
> #1: 98SE with two shared printers attached, using an A/B switch (not my
> setup, plan to change it in the future).
> #2: XP Pro.
> #3: Win 2000
> #4: Laptop; dual boot WinME and Win 2000
>
> Not using DHCP..all static IP addresses.
>
> They all connect through a router with wireless cards.
>
> Here are my two problems:
>
> 1) I can't connect to #1 (with the printers) from #3. When I set it up,
> it worked fine and printed to the 98 box, but now there's no connection
> at all. Pinging from #3 to #1 times out. I can successfully ping from
> this box to the router and to other boxes on the network. However, I
> can ping from #1 to #3.
>
> 2) On #4 (the dual boot laptop), I have not been able to access the
> network at all from the ME side (can't ping anything except itself),
> but works perfectly from the 2000 side. This tells me the network card
> is OK. All the settings appear to be identical on the two OSs.
>
> Could someone advise me as to what else I can look for to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
turn all firewalls off
set up your network connection (again) with win XP box
make the floppy when it asks
use the floppy to set up the rest of the computers
you should be able to connect
turn firewalls on one at a time checking to see what still connects

> I'm trying to set up printer sharing on a small network. Here's the
> layout:
>
> #1: 98SE with two shared printers attached, using an A/B switch (not my
> setup, plan to change it in the future).
> #2: XP Pro.
> #3: Win 2000
> #4: Laptop; dual boot WinME and Win 2000
>
> Not using DHCP..all static IP addresses.
>
> They all connect through a router with wireless cards.
>
> Here are my two problems:
>
> 1) I can't connect to #1 (with the printers) from #3. When I set it up,
> it worked fine and printed to the 98 box, but now there's no connection
> at all. Pinging from #3 to #1 times out. I can successfully ping from
> this box to the router and to other boxes on the network. However, I
> can ping from #1 to #3.
>
> 2) On #4 (the dual boot laptop), I have not been able to access the
> network at all from the ME side (can't ping anything except itself),
> but works perfectly from the 2000 side. This tells me the network card
> is OK. All the settings appear to be identical on the two OSs.
>
> Could someone advise me as to what else I can look for to fix this?

Check for Case Sensitive SSID or Workgroups, I've ran across this before and
couldn't believe it.

Check for Encryptions and SSID Broadcast.

Known bug for WinXP printing to Win98, needing service patch.

Ricky



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