Win 98 Client does not see Win2000 server

Have you tried setting up a hosts file in the win98 client
machines? I had a problem with a W2K server like that.
Networking would work sporadically, sometimes the clients
would map to the server and sometimes they wouldn't. When
they would map, they would only map using IP instead of
host name. Once I set up the host file, my machines
connected just fine.


>-----Original Message-----
>Yesterday, I set up and added succesfully a Win2000
server
>with Win98 clients "all" clients could see and accesses
>server. Today, 2 of the 98 clients will not connect to
the
>Win2000 server and do not even see it as part of the
>network. I can ping server successfully via dos but does
>not recognize using server name. I can see the client
from
>the server. Any ideas??
>.
>

How do you set up a host file?

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Natalie Burroughs
Project Manager
Professional Internet Designs
"jody" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:034001c38f6a$d4e1d0a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Have you tried setting up a hosts file in the win98 client
> machines? I had a problem with a W2K server like that.
> Networking would work sporadically, sometimes the clients
> would map to the server and sometimes they wouldn't. When
> they would map, they would only map using IP instead of
> host name. Once I set up the host file, my machines
> connected just fine.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Yesterday, I set up and added succesfully a Win2000
> server
> >with Win98 clients "all" clients could see and accesses
> >server. Today, 2 of the 98 clients will not connect to
> the
> >Win2000 server and do not even see it as part of the
> >network. I can ping server successfully via dos but does
> >not recognize using server name. I can see the client
> from
> >the server. Any ideas??
> >.
> >
>