[RESOLVED] NetBIOS ping issue

[UncleMarv]

Seemed like a simple problem. Took over a 9 station W98 peer network and need to get this working ASAP.

New NAS device only accepts TCP/IP. 4 machines can ping other stations by IP address, but not by name, therefore they cannot connect to the network shared drive.

Here's what I've done.
1) Re-installed NIC drivers.
2) Replaced NIC cards.
3) Re-installed W98 on workstations.
4) Upgraded IE to 5.5
5) Blew out IP stack and network and re-installed.

Does anyone have any other thoughts?

[Matridom]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by UncleMarv:
<strong>Seemed like a simple problem. Took over a 9 station W98 peer network and need to get this working ASAP.

New NAS device only accepts TCP/IP. 4 machines can ping other stations by IP address, but not by name, therefore they cannot connect to the network shared drive.

Here's what I've done.
1) Re-installed NIC drivers.
2) Replaced NIC cards.
3) Re-installed W98 on workstations.
4) Upgraded IE to 5.5
5) Blew out IP stack and network and re-installed.

Does anyone have any other thoughts?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There are a few things here you need to take into account. Netbuis does not use TCP/IP. I can connect to remote computers on a workgroup without TCP/IP installed. To ping by a name, you need DNS enteries.

Makes sure all computers are on the same "workgroup". Make sure all computers have file/printer sharing enabled. When looking for computers try doing a computer search rather then looking in network neighbourhood.

The fact that your running a work group, means you have no master browser (usualy located on a server) that means that each individual computer is responsible for building a database of local PC's. It's not very accurate, try the search or type \\computername\sharename in the explorer window.

[CJK]

To be able to ping by name, you could also make some entries in the host file. Just associate a name with an IP address. The file is %Windows%\Host.sam. You have to rename it to "Host." and inside the file you will find examples of what to do. Hope this helps

[UncleMarv]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by CJK:
<strong>To be able to ping by name, you could also make some entries in the host file. Just associate a name with an IP address. The file is %Windows%\Host.sam. You have to rename it to "Host." and inside the file you will find examples of what to do. Hope this helps</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">]

Thanks for the ideas, however, I've already verified the things that you mentioned. I've tried with DNS on and off. I've used a few different DNS entries. I've verified the workgroup, looked for computers, disabled some of the master browsers in the network. I've added a hosts file (in some cases, this made it worse). I've done everything I can think of except wipe the drive and start over.

I've actually had this issue before and usually one of these things, or a combination, has solved the problem. Just running out of ideas and would rather not wipe the drive and reload programs.

It just seems odd that this doesn't work.