Windows 98 networking problems

Be prepared to deal with many more IRQ conflicts. By now, your PC has rebooted, and the Network Neighborhood icon should appear on your desktop. You can also reach this point via the Network applet in your Control Panel. Clients Windows 98 SE comes pre-equipped to handle a variety of network clients. As its name suggests, it provides logon capabilities to the network. At logon, it will bring up a dialog box that will display a list of all users who have access read: a personal profile built on that particular machine.

Adapters You may have dealt with adapters already, especially if you had to add your network card manually. This option facilitates the installation of network adapters. ODI is standard for Novell. Highlight the desired—or troublesome—adapter and click Properties. Be sure to pay attention to the Conflict Information box for any problems.

Likewise, you might want to settle on a common Workgroup name for a simpler way of sharing resources. Windows 98 will support up to four network adapters in a single machine.

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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Windows 98 lol networking problem. Thread starter zerog83 Start date Feb 1, Joined Sep 20, Messages I feel like such a noob asking this question, but it's been such a long time since I've had the 'pleasure' of networking with Windows We recently recieved a new addition to our apartment a new roommate, really , and with him he brought us a new computer Anyway, my problem Did that and opened a whole new can of worms.

Now I can't get any of my added programs to run. Thinking this may be a lost cause, unless you have any more suggestions. Thankfully, I did make a back up disc of important files before starting all this. Just a quick follow-up - after straightening out all the problems caused by running the recovery disc, I re-ran the winsockfix, and to my amazement was able to connect the internet, and it has been working fine for several days now.

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I'm not sure what's going out the 2nd story window first - the PC or me.