Fellow soulmates:
I have a Barricade router and a 3com switch. I use the router for internet and I have two computers who share it. I have been trying to get the computers to share data too but it has been hopeless. I have win98 SE on both of them, cat 5 cables, 10/100b cards, and I have verified that my router assigns a different IP address to each computer (which means that it can see them on the network). I did file sharing, assign common workgroup name to both computers, and just about everything else but actually hooking them on a hub. I hooked up the switch with the router, it worked but still there was no LAN communication.
Can you please help me connecting my computers without buying yet another piece of expensive equipment - just to share a few files here and there? What is the missing link?
Regards,
GM
I have a Barricade router and a 3com switch. I use the router for internet and I have two computers who share it. I have been trying to get the computers to share data too but it has been hopeless. I have win98 SE on both of them, cat 5 cables, 10/100b cards, and I have verified that my router assigns a different IP address to each computer (which means that it can see them on the network). I did file sharing, assign common workgroup name to both computers, and just about everything else but actually hooking them on a hub. I hooked up the switch with the router, it worked but still there was no LAN communication.
Can you please help me connecting my computers without buying yet another piece of expensive equipment - just to share a few files here and there? What is the missing link?
Regards,
GM