Re: OS/2 and Windows Peers Suffer Sudden Network Blindness
- From: ITCat <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:24:34 GMT
No HOSTS or LMHOSTS files...never needed them with DHCP, the (now dead)
single-port router doing NAT, and the (now off-line) wireless access point
on the 12-port switch.
All PC's are in the same domain with WinME workgroup matching.
All Windows PC still use DHCP. The OS/2 box no longer uses DHCP. The OS/2
box now has a static IP (outside the DHCP scope) because the new router
mishandled internet access for the OS/2 box...sometimes allowing access,
sometimes not...always giving it an IP and always displaying it in the DHCP
Clients Table but at the same time never displaying it's host name in the
DHCP Clients Table (I thought that was really weird, especially since it
didn't display any of the Windows clients in the Clients Table)...always
allowing it full access on the LAN...never displaying the Windows PC's in
the DHCP Clients Table.
Have always used NETBEUI for shares between platforms...never TCPBEUI...not
opposed to TCPBEUI and have considered using it because Windows uses
NETBIOS over TCP/IP, but never really needed to.
The new wireless 4-port/switch/router was installed several months ago, and
everything has been fine with the OS/2 PC on a static IP...until one day
when for no as yet apparent reason, stuff quit seeing other stuff.
The old router (same mfg) handled DHCP and NAT perfectly for all PC's for
many years. When the old router died and a plain router could not be
obtained locally, there was no immediate choice but to put a 4-port
wireless switch/router on-line. The previous wireless accesss point
worked/works perfectly...it was only taken off-line there is no need for 2
access points. No changes were made immediately prior to the PC's losing
sight of each other.
My gut feeling is the router is flakey. I live in the "lightning capital"
in the "'Hurricane State" and it is very common to lose hardware to
sizzling. In fact I replaced 1 switch at work today from a lightning bolt
I watched strike the street in front of the building on Wednesday...and I
need 3 more to replace 2 switches that had ports fried and a hub I had to
put back on-line temporarily...and that is just the tip of the crisped
hardware iceberg. ;-)
However, on the outside chance there is a known incompatibility where OS/2
is concerned, I thought I'd ask...since there are plenty of folks here with
tons more expertise in OS/2 than I have.
Thanks so much for all your help!
- Cat
cathysullivan_at_cox_dot_net
Bob Eager wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:52:18 UTC, Daniel Jones <dljone9@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <pedant>
>
> > Just curious: do you have a HOSTS file configured on the OS/2 system,
> > and an LMHOSTS file on the Windows box?? And they are both given the
> > same domain name?? And they are on the same IP subnet (static IP's,
> > class C)? And how about...Net BIOS over IP enabled on the OS/2 box??
>
> Class C's don't exist any more. And I've never seen NETBIOS over
> IP...over TCP/IP perhaps.
>
> </pedant>
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