Dial in accounts
Bill Eldridge
bill at rfa.org
Mon Nov 23 05:38:32 GMT 1998
>
> Regarding remote network browsing:
> We have had mixed success browsing Network Neighborhood from
> PPP-connected Win95 PCs. Our servers are all SAMBA, no NT here :-)
> The Win95s have WINS-server defined correctly in the network
> setup (checked by running winipcfg). We wait a couple of
> minutes after establishing PPP-connection, then try to
> browse. Now, some Win95s (my OSR2.1, for example :-) browse
> without problems, but others with a supposedly similar
> setup cannot browse. Is the problem with older Win95
> versions, or something entirely different ? Note that
> we are all dialing in to the same IBM-8235 router, so
> everything ought to be the same, yet the Win95s seem to
> behave differently.
This may not be related, but make sure you have the latest
drivers on problems like this - I've had old 3Com905
original Windows drivers refuse to browse properly, and the
new ones do fine. There might be something very significant
that got updated in Win95 PPP-TCP/IP code in later service
packs and releases.
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