Subj : A rather general question
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sat Jul 03 2004 09:08 am

Hello Roy,

    Responding to a post in the LAN area:
    On Saturday July 03 2004 at 04:06,
    Roy J. Tellason [1:270/615] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: A rather general question

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 GM>> All three machines have (at the least) the TCP/IP protocol.

 GM>> I had to exchange email with a fellow in Scotland who pointed me
 GM>> to an archive on the Microsoft ftp site and I was able to locate
 GM>> Microsoft TCP/IP-32 3.11b.

 GM>> The WfW3.11 box has these protocols:

 GM>>     Microsoft TCP/IP-32 3.11b [default]
 GM>>     Microsoft NetBEUI
 GM>>     IPX/SPX Compatible Transport with NetBIOS

 RT> I'm not sure you need those second two...   IPX/SPX in particular is
 RT> something that's got to do with Novell networks,  and unless you're
 RT> tying in to one I'd remove them.

If it's acceptable to you, I'll leave them as they are in the event that
some other program requires them.....

 GM>> I'm sure there are other protocols available but the fellow in
 GM>> Scotland said I didn't really need anything else.  (???)

 GM>> The W98SE is showing 19 (???) protocols (some are duplicates or
 GM>> triplicates) and I have no idea how many are on the XP box...
 RT> This makes no sense.  I'd clean that up some,  too.  I have no idea
 RT> about XP...

I'll have to sort through them and search all the properties...

 GM>> I might have to go with the computer names because sometimes the
 GM>> router gets reset and then all the IP addresses change, depending
 GM>> on which computer gets turned on first...
 RT> Yeah,  if you're using DHCP that'll happen.  Just make sure that your
 RT> "Workgroup" or "Domain" name (or something along those lines) is
 RT> specified to be the same on all of the machines and they should be
 RT> able to talk with each other.

I have the XPP as "XPHome" and the W98SE as "Workgroup" and I haven't
encountered any 'mishaps', yet...  I'll set up all three machines to have the 
same name -- "Workgroup"...

TTYL.

           Thanks ... Gerald

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