George,
I have noticed the Name Resolution is turned OFF by most firewalls (so
files can not be shared between machines). When you start up with the
firewall running you might have missed the netbios hand shaking. So when
the firewalls are turned off, there is no name resolution.
The solution I have used, since I have fixed IP addresses on all my
machines is to put a lmhosts file on the machines with all the name-IP
pairs. This seems to keep me out of trouble. Or you need DHCP to act as a
DNS for you.
IP addresses always seems to work when all else fails.
Jerry, W6IHG
At 08:32 AM 11/6/2006 -0500, Georgek5kg@aol.com wrote:
>We spent several hours on Saturday, prior to SS, trying to make two WL
>station network together. The objective was to network WL 10.61E on a
>Win98 machine
>to 10.61E on an XP machine.
>
>Try as we might, we could not get WL on the XP machine to connect to WL on
>the Win98 machine. However, it did work in the other direction: WL on the
>Win98
>machine would connect to WL on the XP machine.
>
>The two machines were connected via a router, and we could ping each
>machine's tcp/ip address from the other. We shut down virus protection
>and firewalls
>on both machines, so these would not prevent communications.
>
>We double checked to make sure that both machines' workgroup was "WORKGROUP",
>and the computer names were correct (DELL and RUN2). Still no joy.
>
>The finaly solution came when I entered the Win98's address (192.168.0.103)
>into the "Connect to WriteLog network" window on the XP machine, instead
>of the
>computer name, DELL.
>
>Lesson learned: Using the computer's tcp/ip address instead of the computer
>name allowed WL to be networked.
>
>73, Geo...
>
>George I. Wagner, K5KG
>941-312-9420
>941-400-1960 cell
>
>
>
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