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I recently purchased a Zyxel wireless router/access point,
and equipped two of my three home computers with a zyxel PCI card. The third computer is hard wired to the router. One of the PCI-equipped computers is a Win 98 SE machine, as is the hard-wired one. The third computer is a new XP machine. Initially, I had the two 98SE machines set up, and sharing perfectly. I set up WEP security, and also set up some file sharing shortcuts between the two computers. Then, I tried to implement MAC address filtering for added security. During this effort, somehow something happened to the WIFI machine, and so I backed out of the MAC security attempts I was doing. In the process of trying to figure out what was wrong, I reinstalled drivers, and did quite a bit of trouble shooting, but to no avail. I have gotten back to the following situation: I can see shared resources on the WIFI computer from the wired computer by use of the existing shortcuts. However, the WIFI computer does not show on Network Neighborhood. The WIFI computer, however, cannot see the wired computer, network resources that are on the wired computer cannot be run from the WIFI computer, but the WIFI computer can access the internet through the access point. Since then, I installed and successfully set up file sharing on the XP machine (the third machine) which can see and share resources with the wired computer, and the wired computer can see and share resources with the XP machine. However, the XP machine cannot see the WIFI 98SE machine. What could be wrong with the WIFI machine running 98SE? Zyxel said that it could be something wrong with the NetBIOS, but I really have no clue. It seems that the card is working, there is no problem finding the internet, but it cannot find the other computers on the LAN. Workgroups are all spelled the same, with legal file names. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! TexasSteve |
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