One W98 station can't see or be seen

Tried 2 different networks having both W98 and XP
stations always using MSHOME workgroup. One unit that
has 60 missing Microsoft updates, can't see any other
computers and none of them can see it either. I can't
find anything that looks like a firewall on it. Can you
steer me to a trouble-shooting checklist or something?

It's fixed, finally. The cable connection inside the NIC
was faulty.

>-----Original Message-----
>Tried 2 different networks having both W98 and XP
>stations always using MSHOME workgroup. One unit that
>has 60 missing Microsoft updates, can't see any other
>computers and none of them can see it either. I can't
>find anything that looks like a firewall on it. Can
you
>steer me to a trouble-shooting checklist or something?
>
>.
>

I had a similar problem. Turned out I had NetBEUI as the
network protocol for the Windows 98, Windows ME and
Windows 2000 computers, and Windows XP doesn't support
NetBEUI. I deleted NetBEUI from the Windows 98 and
Windows ME Computers and I could immediately see them on
the Windows XP computer.

>-----Original Message-----
>Tried 2 different networks having both W98 and XP
>stations always using MSHOME workgroup. One unit that
>has 60 missing Microsoft updates, can't see any other
>computers and none of them can see it either. I can't
>find anything that looks like a firewall on it. Can you
>steer me to a trouble-shooting checklist or something?
>
>.
>