That's exactly right. I am indeed also using the same computer name for both OS installations on the dual-boot machine; the name of the other PC that I'm connecting to is different, of course.
Ed
Thanks for the advice!
The hardware definitely does work, as the peer-to-peer link works perfectly when I simply boot into the original W2K installation on the same machine, leaving the gateway machine configured excatly the same.
That's the most frustrating thing -- the identical wireless...
I'm beside myself with frustration with the following problem. I have a simple W2K peer-to-peer network, with one gateway machine with a cable modem on its NIC, which is shared with a client machine (using W2K ICS) over a pair of Buffalo wireless LAN cards.
On the client machine, I have one...
Interesting... I was following the guidance in KB article Q234558 which suggests that in W2K you can simply switch to the correct SMP HAL without needing a repair or clean install.
But given my problems, your advice is clearly sensible! First up, I'll try repair.
Thanks
Ed
I just upgraded my W2K Pro system from single- to dual-processor. It's an Epox KP6-BS mb, now with 2 perfectly identical PIII 550Mhz cpus, and 256MB of RAM. I have the latest version of the BIOS, which recognizes the dual cpus at boot, and I followed the correct procedure of using Device Manager...
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