Win2k Ruins Win98 Network Browsing...

[abrogard]

I've got a win2k machine on a Win98 network.
All the win98 machines can see each other and their shares when I am not up.

when my machine comes up they cannot see each other and cannot see their shares.

I can see them but I cannot see their shares - clicking on them gets me a 'network path not found' message.

In dos I can net view them all - but I cannot net use them at all. I can't even net view one machine.. e.g. net view \\server - I will get path not found even though net view just showed me the path in the list of machines on the net.

I have netbios over tcp running. I have guest account enabled. I have identical accounts on my machine and on the win98 machines (one of them). I have an LMHOSTS file with an entry for the server and one of the win98 machines.

I have sharing enabled and permissions granted.

nbtstat shows I am the only machine with a netbios remote machine name table showing --MSBROWSE-- if that means anything.

In fact I played with LMHOSTS a bit (putting #PRE in there and such) and now nbtstat just give me an error 'host not found' when I try to nbtstat -a the server or a win98 client.

But I can ping these machines....

any ideas will be welcomed....

I thought i had it beat once when playing in dos with net commands suddenly everything worked.... I went off to do something else and when I came back it wasn't working again.

So maybe the whole fault is with the win98 setup. And playing around they suddenly got it right for a moment. And then undid it. But what could that be?

 

[PAndersen]

Maybe it is worth trying to disable the Master Browser feature of the Win2000 machine (?) How to, see
thread616-98266.

 

[abrogard]

I'll try it but there's two parts to what you point me to:
one part says set Maintainserverlist to 'NO'
and the second part say if I do it'll crash the browser service! So suggests disabling the browser service but doesn't say how to do it...

I'll see how I go.... thanks

 

[K1W169]

silly question but does the win2k machine have the same computer name or same ip as one of the win98 machines?

 

[johnduggie]

What else are you running? Anything that could interfere with browser communications?

 

[johnduggie]

i've got zonealarm, norton anti-virus, gozilla, killad, dns2go, icq and various odds and sods that pop up from time to time (usually without me asking)..

 

[tonyflavell]

Hi there

If you want to mix Windows 95/98/2000 machines on a network then you must set "User Level Access Control" not "Share Level Access Control" and specify who can use the shared resource by means of a Username and Password!

Find it on the "Access Control" tab in the "Network Setup" screen.

Hope this helps

Tony

 

[johnduggie]

K1W169 - no, there's no common IP numbers or names. There's only five machines on the network so it's pretty easy to be sure about that.

tonyflavell - it doesn't work like that in win2000 and remember everyone can see everyone okay when my machine is not up....

johnduggie - yes, I've got zonealarm and norton... I'll try disabling them...

 

[johnduggie]

john duggie -
you look like you're talking to yourself, john, but that's right... when i disable zonealarm everything's alright.

on closer inspection there's an advanced configure in zone alarm that allows entry to selected computers. I can still run zone alarm if I configure that part to allow each computer in the network in.

thankyou...

 

[abrogard]

cool... that's the answer...