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Windows 2000 Pro in peer-to-peer network will only communicate with two windows 98 computers with specific IP addresses.

I have a peer-to-peer network with Windows 2000 pro and two windows 98SE computers using static IP addresses. When I add a third win98 to the network, it can see the other two Win98 computers but not the W2K. If I change the IP address to the one used by one of the two existing computers it can connect just fine. These two machines use the address 192.168.1.11 and 192.168.1.13. I have tried several addresses including 192.168.1.12 and 10 and 14 and others. Pinging the W2K from a computer with any address but one of these two gets a "Request Timed out" reply.

I can only guess that there must be something in a policy or something. Other people have "mucked" around in the system and I understand last year they had trouble with a virus. I don't see anything virus related now and Norton does not report any.

Anybody have an idea of what might be going on?

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billconrad

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You get the points !!

Sorry it took so long to get back to this, but I got so busy I did not have time to even look at this problem again until today.

I ended up turning off the "Personal Firewall" altogether as just adding the IP address did not seem to make any difference.

Thanks.

Bill

PCableGuy

thnx Bill, glad to hear it's working.....

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