vulcan4d
08-24-02, 06:16 AM
I need it back up tomorrow so please help. I have a Win2K machine, WinME machine, Win95 machine and now a WinXP Home Notebook hooked up to a 10Mbit network. I setup the network between the previous 3 machines quite a while ago to set them up quicker, but besides that I didn't use it much. Now my sister got a notebook. I tired hooking it up to the network but noticed the network was completely down. Well not entirely, but something is really messed up. The Win2K/WinME machines and the WinXP notebook ONLY see themselves on the network. The Win95 machine doesn't see them either but if I manually add a computer on the Win95 machine, it'll work. That method will only work on the WIn95 machine, all others won't work. What makes things even worse is I can't even ping the other computers on the network (havn't tried win95 machine yet). If I ping the IP of another computer I just get timed out messages. Now how the hell is that possible if all computers are connected to the same hub? My sister is going out of town tomorrow evening so she needs all her files from the WinME machine onto her notebook, so I need this done quickly. I wish I could just plug in the WinME HDD to the notebook as a slave drive, but too bad it doesn't work that way. All computers are connected through a 5 port hub by the way and have the same workgroup name. Also making those wizard networking discs don't help :(.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? I was thinking about alternatives like a crossover cable or direct USB connections. Since the hub method is having problems I'm thinking the crossover cables won't work either, and I never tried direct USB connections before.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? I was thinking about alternatives like a crossover cable or direct USB connections. Since the hub method is having problems I'm thinking the crossover cables won't work either, and I never tried direct USB connections before.