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Rick Lindstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:38:04 -0400
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At 06:36 PM 9/26/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>These suggestions were tried, and yes, now I can see the Win 2000 machine,
>and actually (through network neighborhood) access the machine, but at a
>snail's pace.  What am I missing that is not allowing these two machines to
>easily see each other.  Do I need to give each an IPX address, (and what do
>I use for that, 1.2.3, or something else?)

I'd trim it down to just NetBEUI and see how things work. I've found that
using TCP/IP on a small, non-routed network slows things down considerably.

I know TCP/IP is cool and all the big dogs use it, but for the small peer
network, you can't beat NetBEUI.

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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL. USA
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