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Feb 10, 2006 | 2:44 am

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Originally Posted by bdesmond

NetBEUI? Yuck!

95 has a TCP/IP protocol bundled. Make sure that's added to the NIC, and then either see if you can't get them to work via DHCP autoconfig (where they have some random IP out of 169.254.0.0/16) or else make 95 192.168.1.1 and XP 192.168.1.2 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0

Try doing a "ping computername" for the opposing machines from a command prompt on each to see if they are communicating.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

Scott, I don't know what NetBEUI is!

bdesmond, I do know that my WIN95 machine had TCP/IP protocol bundled (used the card to access libraries at Yale and Harvard via TCP/IP protocols). But what I don't know is what the term "netmask" is or how to achieve it?
And last, is "ping" command from DOS or Windows? (I presume Windows, but since WIN 95 is interface running on DOS OS, I thought I would just check).

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