I hate to ask this here... but I don't know of a better source of
information....
I've got a clients win98 box that she wishes to place on a lan and share
internet
connections, with other users...
Everyone else on the lan is setup perfectly. This one win98 box refuses to see
anything outside of it's own box. That is, I can ping localhost and the host
name and it
works perfectly... ping into the rest of the lan and it times out... no
connections. I've
done EVERYTHING except change the version of OS. I really mean that too... I
even
ran a new ethernet cable... swapped her nic for known good nic, her nic worked
in
another box, the one swapped into her computer didn't... I even tried moving
the
connection on the switch box end... all manner of twiddle and tweak in the
network
setup, etc... ipconfig shows the nic setup as eth0, winicfg look like
everything else
I've ever ran it on... The led's on the nic indicate good connect at
100baset....
I've done this type of setup a 1000 times before, but this one machine is dead
to the
net.
Here's the kicker, Swap out her harddrive for one of mine and within a
few moments I'm browsing the inet and local samba shares like heaven... WTF?
Rotten windows 98 install?
Pop her harddrive back into the machine, backup her most important data, make a
bunch of notes about where and what is in here install and reinstall windows
using
her copy of 98... after sitting though all this shit... SAME EXACT symptoms!
Physically
move another computer into this ones space... no problems.
Now, this leads to my question.... Was there ever an edition of win98 that had
a brain
dead tcpip stack on the cd? I think I've got one!
The fix was to "illegally" use a co-worker's copy of 98se and... bingo... it's
doing what
she wanted!
While I'm here... what is the last version of 98 called and does anyone here
have a
copy they'd like to sell or make a copy of?
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