</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.