[dba-Tech] Modems

Stuart,

>> Can you ping the othjer two machines from your son's. <<

Very good question. No, I can't. I get "Host not reachable" errors. When I
try to ping my sons' w/s I get a timeout.

I also see that that PC isn't visible in My Network Places. Hmmm.

>> make sure that it has a compatible network address and mask. <<

>> If you can, then the first thing I would look at is the gateway
configuration. Is the gateway the same on your son's PC as the
others. <<

I'm not competent to answer that question. In my lurching about I've seen
gateway references along with IP addresses. I'm not sure where to look for
that info. As far as I can tell there are no specific gateways defined for
any of the systems.

>> Personally I'd install W2K on it instead. I've come across no end of
problems with networking XP on mixed OS networks. <<

Are you talking about XP Home on those mixed OS networks? This w/s was
upgraded from Win ME. It has a Fat32 filesystem. I'd kinda like to do an
NTFS. I know that I can do that with Win 2000, but I'm looking for the most
reasonable upgrade cost. I think I'm scrod either way.

You've given me some extra places to look, at the very least. Thanks.

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI

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