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"Howard Ehlers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> About six weeks ago I resurrected an older Windows 98 Machine and did
> not have much difficulty getting it to participate on my Local network
> within the home.
>
> Yesterday, it refused to recognize the other computers and I am not
> aware of any changes other than I had to reconfigure one of my Windows
> XP machines and this may have resulted in a change to the Network.
>
> I have noticed that when I go into Network Neighborhood things are
> fairly sluggish. After the passage of a significant amount of time
> it does show me the name of the Workgroup and it shows me the name of
> itself on the network. Later it will display the names of one or two
> other computers as well but is not consistent. If I click on those
> names I am told that it unable to access the network and specifically
> cannot find those named computers.
>
> Later today I began to see it present a diagnostic to the effect that
> there was a conflict in IP addressing with one of the other computers.
> It told me that the IP in question was 192.168.1.103 and it gave the
> MAC address as a particular value.
>
> I went downstairs and used the desktop to look at the information from
> my Linksys gateway router. I went to get the table that Linksys
> maintains which shows the computer assignments and associated MAC
> addresses. I notice that the address that this Windows 98 computer
> which will not network is complaining about is unassigned at present.
> I do believe that it had been used but I have reset the Linksys in an
> effort to get a fresh start on things.
>
> The table from the Linksys router is showing four computers but will
> not pick up info from the Windows 98 machine which is located
> upstairs. That Windows 98 machine is working on the Internet
> wirelessly just fine but I cannot get it to network. I have tried to
> resurrect the login that Steve had told me to use several years ago
> but have not had any luck. I must have forgotten something crucial
> as I had that computer networking just fine and when I brought it back
> to life it again worked until a day or so ago. It may have gotten
> into trouble when I put the laptop computer back on-line with all
> newly installed software as I had to replace its Hard Drive.
> However, its MAC address did not change in that process I am sure.
>
> The IP address assignments for the computers which are active are:
> HowardNew 192.168.1.100
> D8W3NS11 192.168.1.101
> howard-nb-disk1 192.168.1.102
> D5XVCX11 192.168.1.104
>
> Notice that 103 is not assigned. The wayword PC running Windows 98SE
> is complaining of a conflict with 103 and listing a MAC address that
> is now assigned to 102 as I recall. The name of the Windows 98
> machine is COMP and it never shows up in the data on the other
> computers but it used to do so. The name of the local network is
> MSHOME and in use by all computers.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions. I thought I understood this networking
> stuff but this has been a humbling experience. One day I will
> upgrade all machines to Windows XP and maybe that will make things
> easier as I hardly have any material to read on Window 98 anymore.
>
> Howard
>
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