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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5221)	1/18/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

WORKGROUP is the default workgroup name NT assigns if you don't assign another one. If you don't have NETBEUI as a protocol, I have a bunch of questions, which I'll number to keep straight: 1. Do you have an IP address assigned all the time? (I don't know how the DSL interface works). 2. Are you in fact successfully getting three different IP addresses assigned to \\1, \\2, and \\3 at the same time? 3. If 2. is true, do the routing tables in the three machines show network masks that will allow the machines to communicate with each other? 4. Do \\1 and \\2 have NETBEUI as a protocol? The point of 3. is that when an ISP assigns an IP address, it normally gives it a mask that directs all TCP/IP traffic out the modem, so you can't talk locally via TCP/IP without fiddling with the routing tables, and even if you do you need a second IP address to talk with. It's not at all clear to me how a DHCP server would be able to talk through a hub to assign IP addresses to several machines, so there's clearly something I don't understand about your setup. The point of 4. is that if \\3 and the others can't talk via TCP/IP (and I don't see how unless you've fiddled the routing tables and assigned another IP address), then how the heck is \\1 talking to \\2 if not via NETBEUI? In short, I'm not surprised \\3 can't talk to \\1 or \\2 the way you describe the setup; I AM surprised that \\1 and \\2 can talk to each other. Are you SURE you don't have NETBEUI as a protocol? I think it defaults and you would have to have removed it (but not sure of that). Spots