Check to see  if the workgroup they're in is the same.
Also the each adapters bindings (TCP/IP and/or IPX/SPX)
Check to make sure that you have supplied an IP address
for TCP/IP.

In IPX/SPX check the frame type, and set it to Ethernet 802.3


Plus when the problem appears check the hub to see if
they're are any collisons taking place if that is the case.

--Patrick Black
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~black27/
----- Original Message -----
From: Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 8:28 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Strange Network problem update


> Here is some problem update.
> The  network has been problem for long time since about 7-8 weeks ago when
all
> computers (newly built at that time) had been set up as a P-to-P network.
The
> problem is rather called "Radom problem" than normal "problem". here is
the
> details:
> 1) PC5, PC6 and PC2 always have radom network porblem. the most common one
is
> PC5 is unable to access from others.
> 2) The next common problem is PC6 and PC2 cannot see/access PC5, while
others
> can see PC5 in network neighborhood, but cannot access PC5.
> 3) As I said in last post, there are computers invisible/unaccessable in
network
> neighborhood, but resourse on those computer can be mapped as network
drive and
> access from others.
> 3) I have reinstalled Protocal, checked if there is any misspelling. No
help.
> 4) I thought it may be cable problem, but I cannot test cabling.
> 5) I changed the hub, no help.
> 6) The cable company who installed cable tested the cable and said no
problem
> (but they didn't test while the problem appears, they came in when
everything
> was ok).
> 7) Network cards have been changed with no help.
> 8) Since PC5 is the most trouble computer, I already changed completed new
> computer to replace it twise. No help.
> 9) Now, no computer can access PC5 again.
>
> I'm running out of idea, please someone help me out.
>
> Thanks
>
> J Qian
>
> >I have a strange network problem which is hunting me down for a while.
> >Hope someone out there can give me a clue.
> >
> >The network: P-to-P IPX/SPX network using win98 and 10BaseT NIC, UTP
> >cable and hub.
> >
> >The problem: PC5 and PC3 couldn't see PC1 in network neighborhood, but I
> >can map network drive (\\PC1\shared\ as drive X) from PC5 and PC3, and
> >access PC1 with no problem as long as I direct point network drive to
> >the resourse location on PC1. However \\PC1\ is not accessable from both
> >PC5 and PC3. All other computers can see/access each other with no
> >problem. PC5 and PC3 don't have problem with any other computer but PC1.
> >PC1 has no problem with any computers.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me what is the problem?
>
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