wireless filesharing in win9x?

I have just brought a netgear 108Mbps router and four eathernet cards. i set
up the network with my internet cable pluged into the router. Two of my
computers are hardwired from the router the other two have wireless
eathernet cards. The two hardwired computers [winme and win2000pro] file
share happily and connect to the internet happily, the two wireless PC's
[winme] share the internet but will not fileshare. I can not even see the
wireless computers in networ places in the wireless machines yet I can see
all computers in the hardwired PC's. I can ping all computers. I am using
TCP/IP and netbios with automatic ip addressing. Anyone got any ideas, I
would be most grateful.

Regards
Geoff

Unable to Browse the Network


On a Windows 95/98/Me machine, the most common cause of this is that the user
isn't logged on. Look on the Start menu, under the Log Off option. If it shows
Log Off <user name>, then you're logged on. If it shows just Log Off', then
you're not logged on.

One reason for this is the user hitting ESC or clicking Cancel at the login
dialog. They must not do that. Either enter the password, or leave the password
empty and click OK. If the user is never presented with a login dialog and is
still not getting logged in, then refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article
Q141858 for a likely fix.

courtesy of

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/.../11trouble.htm
peter

"jed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have just brought a netgear 108Mbps router and four eathernet cards. i set
> up the network with my internet cable pluged into the router. Two of my
> computers are hardwired from the router the other two have wireless
> eathernet cards. The two hardwired computers [winme and win2000pro] file
> share happily and connect to the internet happily, the two wireless PC's
> [winme] share the internet but will not fileshare. I can not even see the
> wireless computers in networ places in the wireless machines yet I can see
> all computers in the hardwired PC's. I can ping all computers. I am using
> TCP/IP and netbios with automatic ip addressing. Anyone got any ideas, I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Regards
> Geoff
>
>

The site that Peter referred you to has excellent advice.

With mixed 9.x and WinMe/2000/xp networks, the best thing to do with the 9.x
machines is to remove all protocols except TCP/IP--this should be the case
on all the machines---TCP/IP is the only protocol you need. You may even
want to remove TCP/IP on the 9.x machines, and then reinstall networking
from scratch--sometimes file and printer sharing has been unbound from
TCP/IP as a security precaution--that isn't an issue now that you are behind
the router.

Check that File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks is installed.

Check out the guideance at practicallynetworked.com--it should have
everything you need.

"jed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:41d0932e$0$6544$(E-Mail Removed) ...
>I have just brought a netgear 108Mbps router and four eathernet cards. i
>set
> up the network with my internet cable pluged into the router. Two of my
> computers are hardwired from the router the other two have wireless
> eathernet cards. The two hardwired computers [winme and win2000pro] file
> share happily and connect to the internet happily, the two wireless PC's
> [winme] share the internet but will not fileshare. I can not even see the
> wireless computers in networ places in the wireless machines yet I can see
> all computers in the hardwired PC's. I can ping all computers. I am using
> TCP/IP and netbios with automatic ip addressing. Anyone got any ideas, I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Regards
> Geoff
>
>