Thanks Tom,
I fixed up the computer names to UPPERCASENOSPACES and all is well between
Writelogs running on Win2000 and Win98 machines.
Have a great Field Day, all,
Cheers & 73, Tony
AD6ID
W6GGF "Garlic, Garlic, Forever", Garlic Valley ARC
At 07:18 AM 6/23/03 -0500, tmcdermott@chiaro.com wrote:
>Tony:
>
> Older version of Windows NETBIOS don't know about lower case computer
> names, or names with embedded spaces. Windows networking doesn't
> care, but NETBIOS does; Writelog uses NETBIOS to resolve names.
>
> Make sure that both computers have an ALL UPPER CASE computer name, and
> neither has any embedded spaces. This solved the problem for me between
> a WinXP and Win95 machine. I posted the gory details about two months
> ago
> on the reflector.
>
> Good Luck on field Day!
>
> -- Tom, N5EG
>
>
>
>>Hi folks,
>> I'm checking out the laptops we used for Writelog logging for last year's
>> Field Day, just to make sure...
>> Well, the networking (which worked great last year) will not work. Here
>> are the details:
>> One laptop is running Win98SE the other Win2000.
>> TCP/IP is set for both at fixed IP addresses - 192.168.1.2 and
>> 192.168.1.10. They are the only two connected so far.
>> I can ping both from each other.
>>
>>When I try to connect, I get the Writelog error status window reporting
>>"Lost connection to <name>". The error is the same from either computer.
>>
>> NetBUI is configured on both to use Microsoft networking.
>> The Win98 laptop DOES network fine with my Win98 desktop computer.
>> Writelog works fine between them.
>> I tried the Writelog doc check of running NETSETV9.EXE - it reported the
>> "Network is OK" on both.
>> The workgroups are NOT common, though. The win2000 computer can either
>> belong to a domain OR a workgroup but not both.
>>(I'd prefer not to use the win2000 machine as a non domain system as I'd
>>haver to coerce a local admin password out of the
>>folks at work).
>>
>> Clues? What did I miss?
>>
>>Thanks & 73,
>>
>>Tony, AD6ID
>>
>>Garlic Valley ARC, W6GGF
>>Gilroy, CA
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