Rebelious Win98SE workstation

[JCrou82]

I have a network of win98SE workstation machines with a win2k Server. one workstation has a printer installed. A number of the nearby workstations share the printer fine. but one does not. This one "bad" machine can be viewed and accessed in the network neighborhood by every single machine including the printer machine, but that "bad" machine can not access the printer machine or some other machines. Only a few machines are an exception to this. All I did that was different was restart the server. But after I did that, I restarted all of the machines. Is there a setting or something that may have been lost somewhere? The "bad" machine was on the network just fine prior to the server restart. What am I missing and why doesn't it want to work?


Thank you all

 

[mrblonde]

I would check to see what protocals are installed on the bad machine. Also I would make sure in TCP/IP that the Subnet Mask is correct.

Mr. Blonde

 

[JCrou82]

Thank you mrblonde for your response. All the machines use the same protocols and the subnet mask is exactly the same

 

[JCrou82]

To anyone interested, I fixed the problem. I'm not sure what actually caused it or why it happened, but I do know what fixed it.

I right-clicked network neighborhood --> properties --> clicked on the ethernet adapter --> went to the bindings tab --> deselected IPX/SPX and that fixed it.

Don't ask me how or why but it did. Thanks for those who have helped.