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Re: NETBEUI communication between Windows 98 and Vista Home?
Thank you Michael for the near correct explanation of NetBEUI on Vista.
The only error is that the sys file goes in the drivers directory not
the etc directory below it.
I saw the NetBEUI solution to Vista/XP networking in the TechRepublic
community,
but there was no indication of how to get NetBEUI installed
on Vista. Having already done this on the Win2000 and XP machine, your
"modified for Vista" explanation was just what I needed.
I now have three PCs: Win 2000, XP and Vista networked and sharing
files.
The network mapping still does not work on Vista, so to map the drive
you need to know the strings to get to the \\server\share_name. Just
like my old UNIX days really.
The LLTD protocol was installed on my XP machine early on in this
trial of patience, but there are clearly many ways to foul up this
fragile
connection between Vista and something else.
There are many explanations throughout various support sites on how
to use the LLTD protocol and how to setup Vista to share files with an
XP machine. But each of them works only under certain (unknown)
circumstances. Since each solution works for someone, that someone
seems, in each case, to believe that they have found THE solution.
I solved this issue about 6 months ago. Then the solution involved
copying a .dll to the Sytem32 directory on the XP machine. NetBEUI
was on the XP and the WIN2000 PC but not on the Vista PC. But,
one of the LLTD solutions plus several days trial and error I got the
file and printer sharing working.
A disk crash three months ago on the XP had me rebuilding it, but
I had lost trace of the .dll to copy, and could see no use for NetBEUI,
so they were not installed. Since printer sharing was working and the
Win2000 - Vista file sharing was working there was no need to go
further.
After a power cut two days ago I could only get the network to
support the Win 2000 - Vista connection working and the Win 2000 - XP
connection working. The XP PC detected the Vista PC but could not
look at anything but public files on the Vista PC.
Anyway, thanks to you Michael and the TechRepublic post, all is
now functional again. But it certainly seems a horrible way to
cobble together a solution.
After almost 45 years in IT, Vista is most definitely the most
difficult
OS I have come across to work with. I suppose if you've never
used a computer before, Vista might be usable on a home PC
connected to Internet. I am glad I'm retired from IT support now.
Cheers
Ian
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Thank you Michael for the near correct explanation of NetBEUI on Vista.
The only error is that the sys file goes in the drivers directory not
the etc directory below it.
I saw the NetBEUI solution to Vista/XP networking in the TechRepublic
community,
but there was no indication of how to get NetBEUI installed
on Vista. Having already done this on the Win2000 and XP machine, your
"modified for Vista" explanation was just what I needed.
I now have three PCs: Win 2000, XP and Vista networked and sharing
files.
The network mapping still does not work on Vista, so to map the drive
you need to know the strings to get to the \\server\share_name. Just
like my old UNIX days really.
The LLTD protocol was installed on my XP machine early on in this
trial of patience, but there are clearly many ways to foul up this
fragile
connection between Vista and something else.
There are many explanations throughout various support sites on how
to use the LLTD protocol and how to setup Vista to share files with an
XP machine. But each of them works only under certain (unknown)
circumstances. Since each solution works for someone, that someone
seems, in each case, to believe that they have found THE solution.
I solved this issue about 6 months ago. Then the solution involved
copying a .dll to the Sytem32 directory on the XP machine. NetBEUI
was on the XP and the WIN2000 PC but not on the Vista PC. But,
one of the LLTD solutions plus several days trial and error I got the
file and printer sharing working.
A disk crash three months ago on the XP had me rebuilding it, but
I had lost trace of the .dll to copy, and could see no use for NetBEUI,
so they were not installed. Since printer sharing was working and the
Win2000 - Vista file sharing was working there was no need to go
further.
After a power cut two days ago I could only get the network to
support the Win 2000 - Vista connection working and the Win 2000 - XP
connection working. The XP PC detected the Vista PC but could not
look at anything but public files on the Vista PC.
Anyway, thanks to you Michael and the TechRepublic post, all is
now functional again. But it certainly seems a horrible way to
cobble together a solution.
After almost 45 years in IT, Vista is most definitely the most
difficult
OS I have come across to work with. I suppose if you've never
used a computer before, Vista might be usable on a home PC
connected to Internet. I am glad I'm retired from IT support now.
Cheers
Ian
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