Help? Win95 & WinXP with router - network setup??

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with establishing a network connection between Win95 &
WinXP, in combination with a router and I hope folks in this newsgroup can
help me out with this?? I've been at it for about a week now and I can't
seem to take the last few steps to set this up correctly. Allow me to
provide some details on the situation...

Last week, I've bought myself a router, so that I could share my interet
connection between my 'ole & faithful' Win95 computer and the new XP PC. The
router is a Sweex model, with 1 WAN entry & 4 LAN outlets. The internet
connection took only a moment & it truly works like a charm, but then I read
in the manual, that you could also use it to set up a small network between
the connected PC's. I've been wrestling since... ;-D

I noticed some comments on the topic made here en in articles on the web -
so I went and removed the Client for Netware & the IPX/SPX and NetBEUI
protocols, that were installed on the Win95 PC. (After which I verified that
the internet connection for both the modem dial-up line & LAN connection
still worked correctly - which they did. As a bonus, removing the old
protocols gave me an approx. 10% memory saving on this PC).

What I left on the Win95 PC, were the Adapter-drivers for the network-card &
modem, TCP/IP protocol for both, Client for Microsoft networks and File &
Printer sharing (activated). I've set the "D:"-drive up as a shared
resource, no password.

On the WinXP PC, I activated a Wizard to setup the network: it activated
File & Printer sharing, it set the firewall up to allow file & printer
sharing as an exception and checked a few other items. TCP/IP & Client for
MS network were already present. I set up a data folder as shared resource.


Unfortunately, the result of the above is, that the PC's can NOT access each
other's shared resources. The Win95 pc can't even see it's own shared
resources. HOWEVER.... Strange things are happening, that I can't really
understand?

- 1) When I take the ping command and ping the IP-address of router, Win95 &
WinXP pc's, they all respond correctly.

- 2) Command "net view \\ip-address" on WinXP, reports the shared
resources - for both WinXP as well as the Win95 system.

- 3) Command "net view \\ip-address" on Win95, reports the shared resources
for Win95 system ONLY. The command, issued with the IP-address for the WinXP
system issues an error 53 (the errormessage is in Dutch, but it would
translate to "Can't find computername in network").

AFTER executing the above "net view" commands, the WinXP system is suddenly
able to access the shared drive on the Win95 PC, but the Win95 PC still
can't see or access the shared folder of the WinXP pc. This one-way
connection is unstable, however. If a "demanding" program is run on the
Win95 pc, the network connection can drop off just like that (re-issuing the
command then brings it back on).

I then added both the (router generated) IP addresses & their related names,
into the HOSTS file on both systems - hoping that might do the trick - but
that didn't change things either.

The TCP/IP protocols on both systems need to be setup to get their IP
addresses automatically. If I change that and enter the configured addresses
manually into the appropriate field in the protocol's tab-page and reboot
afterwards, the internet connection is gone. (This is consistent with the
documentation of my current provider, by the way - I just thought I'd give
it a try anyway).


What else is there, that I can try to connect these PC's?

I'd appreciate your suggestions & help!

Thanks & best regards,

Harry Doldersum.
(Please reply to this newsgroup? The email reply address is invalid, due to
spam).

Further developments.....

Have not yet been able to establish contact from the Win95 to the WinXP pc
as yet, but did try a few more things:

- Activated NetBios over TCP/IP on the WinXP pc (was already activated on
the Win95 system). - No improvement.

- Switched off the WinXP firewall and tried to connect, but to no evail.
Error 53 remains. (Switched firewall back on. The firewall settings also
indicated that access would be granted, I just thought I'd verify and make
sure).

Error 53 indicates that the PC can't be found on the network. I think that's
where the problem is - but how to solve it??

Please help me with this one, folks!!

Best regards,
Harry D.


"Harry Doldersum" <grouponly RemoveThis @due2spam.com> schreef in bericht
news:eyMrSrpTFHA.3636@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
 > Hi all,
 >
 > I'm having a problem with establishing a network connection between Win95
 > &
 > WinXP, in combination with a router and I hope folks in this newsgroup can
 > help me out with this?? I've been at it for about a week now and I can't
 > seem to take the last few steps to set this up correctly. Allow me to
 > provide some details on the situation...
 >
 > Last week, I've bought myself a router, so that I could share my interet
 > connection between my 'ole & faithful' Win95 computer and the new XP PC.
 > The
 > router is a Sweex model, with 1 WAN entry & 4 LAN outlets. The internet
 > connection took only a moment & it truly works like a charm, but then I
 > read
 > in the manual, that you could also use it to set up a small network
 > between
 > the connected PC's. I've been wrestling since... ;-D
 >
 > I noticed some comments on the topic made here en in articles on the web -
 > so I went and removed the Client for Netware & the IPX/SPX and NetBEUI
 > protocols, that were installed on the Win95 PC. (After which I verified
 > that
 > the internet connection for both the modem dial-up line & LAN connection
 > still worked correctly - which they did. As a bonus, removing the old
 > protocols gave me an approx. 10% memory saving on this PC).
 >
 > What I left on the Win95 PC, were the Adapter-drivers for the network-card
 > &
 > modem, TCP/IP protocol for both, Client for Microsoft networks and File &
 > Printer sharing (activated). I've set the "D:"-drive up as a shared
 > resource, no password.
 >
 > On the WinXP PC, I activated a Wizard to setup the network: it activated
 > File & Printer sharing, it set the firewall up to allow file & printer
 > sharing as an exception and checked a few other items. TCP/IP & Client for
 > MS network were already present. I set up a data folder as shared
 > resource.
 >
 >
 > Unfortunately, the result of the above is, that the PC's can NOT access
 > each
 > other's shared resources. The Win95 pc can't even see it's own shared
 > resources. HOWEVER.... Strange things are happening, that I can't really
 > understand?
 >
 > - 1) When I take the ping command and ping the IP-address of router, Win95
 > &
 > WinXP pc's, they all respond correctly.
 >
 > - 2) Command "net view \\ip-address" on WinXP, reports the shared
 > resources - for both WinXP as well as the Win95 system.
 >
 > - 3) Command "net view \\ip-address" on Win95, reports the shared
 > resources
 > for Win95 system ONLY. The command, issued with the IP-address for the
 > WinXP
 > system issues an error 53 (the errormessage is in Dutch, but it would
 > translate to "Can't find computername in network").
 >
 > AFTER executing the above "net view" commands, the WinXP system is
 > suddenly
 > able to access the shared drive on the Win95 PC, but the Win95 PC still
 > can't see or access the shared folder of the WinXP pc. This one-way
 > connection is unstable, however. If a "demanding" program is run on the
 > Win95 pc, the network connection can drop off just like that (re-issuing
 > the
 > command then brings it back on).
 >
 > I then added both the (router generated) IP addresses & their related
 > names,
 > into the HOSTS file on both systems - hoping that might do the trick - but
 > that didn't change things either.
 >
 > The TCP/IP protocols on both systems need to be setup to get their IP
 > addresses automatically. If I change that and enter the configured
 > addresses
 > manually into the appropriate field in the protocol's tab-page and reboot
 > afterwards, the internet connection is gone. (This is consistent with the
 > documentation of my current provider, by the way - I just thought I'd give
 > it a try anyway).
 >
 >
 > What else is there, that I can try to connect these PC's?
 >
 > I'd appreciate your suggestions & help!
 >
 > Thanks & best regards,
 >
 > Harry Doldersum.
 > (Please reply to this newsgroup? The email reply address is invalid, due
 > to
 > spam).
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
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