Off topic network connectivity

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I use my Win2K laptop to access my Win95b shared folder on our network without any problems. I don't know WHY it works, however.


Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Shallbetter
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Off topic network connectivity



We recently purchased 3 new Windows 2000 pro machines , my first experience
with the OS. All three are connected to my SBS 4.5 server.. On one of the 2k
machines (a laptop) I am unable to access a folder on a Win95 client. I can
however access this same folder from a different Win2k client. Using the
laptop I can access folders on a Win98 machine. I have the user on the
laptop set to use the administrative group.. Searching the Microsoft KB it
has a couple possibilities. One is invalid DNS server IP address?? (we use
DHCP, and have DNS disabled on all clients) The other is something to do
with a group policy plug-in, looking at the tree structure in the management
consoles of the 2 Win2k machines they appear to be the same. Dell is telling
me that "Win2k really does not like Win95 very well and it must of been a
mater of luck on the one Win2k machine" I am hoping that somebody on the
list can give a better answer then Dell.

Thanks
Dan Shallbetter
States Electric Mfg.



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We recently purchased 3 new Windows 2000 pro machines , my first experience
with the OS. All three are connected to my SBS 4.5 server.. On one of the 2k
machines (a laptop) I am unable to access a folder on a Win95 client. I can
however access this same folder from a different Win2k client. Using the
laptop I can access folders on a Win98 machine. I have the user on the
laptop set to use the administrative group.. Searching the Microsoft KB it
has a couple possibilities. One is invalid DNS server IP address?? (we use
DHCP, and have DNS disabled on all clients) The other is something to do
with a group policy plug-in, looking at the tree structure in the management
consoles of the 2 Win2k machines they appear to be the same. Dell is telling
me that "Win2k really does not like Win95 very well and it must of been a
mater of luck on the one Win2k machine" I am hoping that somebody on the
list can give a better answer then Dell.

Thanks
Dan Shallbetter
States Electric Mfg.
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Dan,

I had a similar problem with NT4.0 and service packs. Any NT machine I had
with a service pack installed (didn't matter which, 1 - 6a) could not access
shared files on a machine with Windows 95 Rev A. They were fine on all 95 B
and OSR2 machines, just not A. Just a thought for something to check.

Rick
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We had a problem with our W2k machine seeing my Win95 laptop and the
problems was the workgroups names were different.

Cameron A. Janish
Misha1
866-464-7421
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Shallbetter [mailto:dans@...]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 08:20 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Off topic network connectivity



We recently purchased 3 new Windows 2000 pro machines , my first
experience
with the OS. All three are connected to my SBS 4.5 server.. On one of the
2k
machines (a laptop) I am unable to access a folder on a Win95 client. I
can
however access this same folder from a different Win2k client. Using the
laptop I can access folders on a Win98 machine. I have the user on the
laptop set to use the administrative group.. Searching the Microsoft KB it
has a couple possibilities. One is invalid DNS server IP address?? (we use
DHCP, and have DNS disabled on all clients) The other is something to do
with a group policy plug-in, looking at the tree structure in the
management
consoles of the 2 Win2k machines they appear to be the same. Dell is
telling
me that "Win2k really does not like Win95 very well and it must of been a
mater of luck on the one Win2k machine" I am hoping that somebody on the
list can give a better answer then Dell.

Thanks
Dan Shallbetter
States Electric Mfg.



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