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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (368)	3/18/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (368)	3/18/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Install TCP/IP unless you have a requirement to connect to a Netware network. Doesn't sound like you do. To set up TCP/IP, you need to add the TCP/IP protocol to your net card; you should also install the Simple TCP/IP services. You can do both of these in network properties (control panel, or right click the network icon and select properties). Then you have to configure TCP/IP. Select TCP/IP on the Protocols tab and click Properties. You have to assign IP addresses and a mask. You must assign an IP address to each computer--you don't have a DHCP server to assign one for you. You won't have a gateway nor DNS nor WINS. (DNS and WINS are other tabs on the TCP/IP property sheet). Since you're not on the internet, you can assign nearly any IP addresses you want if you avoid those with special meanings. The following should work for you. Assign your PCs addresses 200.200.200.24x, where x is 1,2,...,6. Use a mask of 255.255.255.248. DO NOT assign addresses 200.200.200.240 or 200.200.200.247 (these are loopback and broadcast addresses for the mask). Unless you have a dialup ISP who has IP address 200.200.200.xxx on the internet, this should work for you in house. At a later time I or others on this thread can go into more detail about what this stuff means. I don't think I've missed anyhthing essential here, though. Do this for your pc and your laptop. Assign different addresses for the pc and for the laptop, such as 200.200.200.241 and 200.200.200.242. If you have internet connectivity that makes you visible (which a dial-up ISP won't, even if you use TCP/IP), you will have to worry about address conflicts, but unless that happens you should be home free. Good luck. Ask if you run into trouble. It IS confusing and mysterious till you break through the info barrier <gg>. That keeps the folks who aren't willing to pay the intellectual entrance fee outside the doors <gggg>. Regards, Spots PS. This was rushed; I could easily have missed something essential, as I'm working entirely from memory. BTW, you should be able to browse your local computers via NETBEUI, as I'm sure you're already doing now from your earlier descripations. PPS. This won't gain you anything except perhaps laplink connectivity. But you can learn the lingo. I'll tell you in advance it consists mostly of four-letter words ...

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (368)	3/20/1998 9:49:00 AM
From: John Johnston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave, sounds like Spots pretty much answered your main question. A question for you, if your just going to use the network for transferring data from the portable to the desktop, why not set up a cable link rather than a network ?. Easier to do and less configuration issues to deal with. Scratch that, I forgot you have LapLink which is a good cable connection. For reference material with NT take a look at the Windows NT Resources Kit for Work Station, it cost about $70.00 US but is a wealth of info. I have the Resources book for NT and 95 and wouldn't be without them. For the 4311 error I'd remove the drivers and reload them, make sure under "protocals" (control panel, network) you only have NetB and TCP/IC selected. Then see if you still get the error message, take a look under "services" and see if everything started that was suppose to start as "automatic". Also, for the LapTop configuring with NT you can configure a "Hardware Profile" for when your laptop is "docked" and one for when it isn't. Let me know if you need more info on configuring a hardware profile for Docked and Undocked.