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Where is Tannin when you need him? I'm trying to do this on my own, and I'm lost.
This morning I finished hooking up the NT box in the workshop (K6-III 500) to the TCP/IP thingie, slipped Folding@Home console onto it, and it's crunching away quite happily. But that damn Couchtest character is walking away from me. I need more machines!
So I built an Athlon XP 1900, slipped in a network card and an old 1.7GB Seagate hard drive, hooked it up to the network, installed Windows 98SE. So far, so good. But I can't get the damn thing to TCP/IP!
OK, I've watched Tannin doing this. It seems easy enough. You give it any host name you like (I'm using the same host as the computer name for NetBUI purposes), set the domain to the same as your local workgroup, give it a DNS server name or two (such as those used by my dial-up providers).
Then, on the gateway page, you stick in the IP address of the machine that belongs to the modem: 192.168.1.1 in this case.
Disable WINS Resolution
Specify an IP address: in this case I'm using 192.168.1.9, and set the subnet mast to 255.255.255.0
Bindings I'm not sure about, but Tannin just left Client for Microsioft Networks ticked and file and printer sharing unticked, so I copied that.But I don't think that page should matter at all for my purposes.
In Advanced, it shouldn't matter if I set this protocol to be the default protocol or not.
On the NetBIOS tab the "enable netBIOS over TCP/IP" entry is ticked and geyed out, so I just left that as is.
Reboot and Presto!
But it didn't Prest, and it didn't go!
I tried pinging 203.7.198.18 (which is www.redhill.net.au) and it timed out. Tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (the main server) and that didn't go either.
So I checked if I had ordinary Windows type networking: nope. Well, I know how to fix that: protocol => add => Microsoft => NetBUI => apply => reboot.
Yup. I have a network: I can see the other local machines, they can see me. Ping 192.168.1.1 Nothing!
Double check the connections, the settings, copy them exactly from the Win98 box in the back office (that is crunching merrily away). Triple-checked everything. Rebooted a million times. Nothing!
OK. I'll do it again.
Format C: reinstall, using win95B this time, because it's quicker to install and so long as it's Win32 it doesn't matter. Repeat exact steps. (Except this time it decded to put NetBUI in all by itself and worked for ordinary Windows networking all by itself. Can see other drives, copy files, all that stuff.)
Ping 192.168.1.1 Nothing!
Only machine I can ping successfully is 192.168.1.9 - which is to say this same machine.
Now what?
This morning I finished hooking up the NT box in the workshop (K6-III 500) to the TCP/IP thingie, slipped Folding@Home console onto it, and it's crunching away quite happily. But that damn Couchtest character is walking away from me. I need more machines!
So I built an Athlon XP 1900, slipped in a network card and an old 1.7GB Seagate hard drive, hooked it up to the network, installed Windows 98SE. So far, so good. But I can't get the damn thing to TCP/IP!
OK, I've watched Tannin doing this. It seems easy enough. You give it any host name you like (I'm using the same host as the computer name for NetBUI purposes), set the domain to the same as your local workgroup, give it a DNS server name or two (such as those used by my dial-up providers).
Then, on the gateway page, you stick in the IP address of the machine that belongs to the modem: 192.168.1.1 in this case.
Disable WINS Resolution
Specify an IP address: in this case I'm using 192.168.1.9, and set the subnet mast to 255.255.255.0
Bindings I'm not sure about, but Tannin just left Client for Microsioft Networks ticked and file and printer sharing unticked, so I copied that.But I don't think that page should matter at all for my purposes.
In Advanced, it shouldn't matter if I set this protocol to be the default protocol or not.
On the NetBIOS tab the "enable netBIOS over TCP/IP" entry is ticked and geyed out, so I just left that as is.
Reboot and Presto!
But it didn't Prest, and it didn't go!
I tried pinging 203.7.198.18 (which is www.redhill.net.au) and it timed out. Tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (the main server) and that didn't go either.
So I checked if I had ordinary Windows type networking: nope. Well, I know how to fix that: protocol => add => Microsoft => NetBUI => apply => reboot.
Yup. I have a network: I can see the other local machines, they can see me. Ping 192.168.1.1 Nothing!
Double check the connections, the settings, copy them exactly from the Win98 box in the back office (that is crunching merrily away). Triple-checked everything. Rebooted a million times. Nothing!
OK. I'll do it again.
Format C: reinstall, using win95B this time, because it's quicker to install and so long as it's Win32 it doesn't matter. Repeat exact steps. (Except this time it decded to put NetBUI in all by itself and worked for ordinary Windows networking all by itself. Can see other drives, copy files, all that stuff.)
Ping 192.168.1.1 Nothing!
Only machine I can ping successfully is 192.168.1.9 - which is to say this same machine.
Now what?