Network problem

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Hallo

Whould like to know if you can help me with a "small" problem?

We have a network of about 30 PC's with 1 3Com switch, and 2 Accton switches. All is on a Win 200 network(Server). Thay all have maped drives and there My Documents is stored on the server. They have a permanent connection to the web.

All the Win 2000 and Win XP PC's can connect to the server and all the maped driver all the time, but the Win 98 PC's can only see the maped drives some time and then no one on the network. The other time they see the network, but not the maped drives. All the light on the hubs flikker at the same time.

I have tried to put just 3 PC's, server and 2 Win98 PC's, on a brand new hub, but thy all do the same! We have TCP\IP, NetBIOS and IPX\SPX installed as our protocols, all the PC's have a static IP.

Tried new cables and new network cards. All ready relouded the server and the PC's then it works for about 3-5 day's. Louded all service packs on all the PC's including the server.

PLEASE HELP!! We are realy losing our minds, because we think this is something small jet not a logic solution

With regards
Alwyn

 

[Papa4]

I have encountered the same problem in my network. Here is
what I did to resolve it.

Make sure that all Win98 machines are set to use:
"Client for Microsoft Networks" as the primary login instead of: "Windows Family Logon"

Shorten your Win2K and WinXP share names and host names
to 12 characters or less.

Installed and enabled NetBEUI protocol on all my Win2K
and WinXP systems. You will have to copy two files from
the WinXP/Win2K install disk to directories on the system
disk.

* copy NBF.SYS into the "%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\"
directory
* copy NETNBF.INF into the "%SYSTEMROOT%\INF\" directory
* open network connection properties and use "Install..."
button to add NetBEUI protocol

For the Win98 systems that still had problems, I upgraded them to WinXP. I have not found any of my programs that
will not work on WinXP.

Papa4

 

[manteca]

I run about 35 PC's on my Windows 2000 server. I installed DHCP service and DNS. All my XP and 2000 pc's worked fine. My Windows 98 would lose connection. I then installed WINS also and I've been fine for almost 2 1/2 years now. Hope this helps.