On 08/18/05 at 12:53 AM, Davey Brain  said:


I did 
>nothing to change my peer-to-peer networking except try to add an HP 
>notebook with WinXP which failed totally. But I still had my network 
>after that. I need it EVERY DAY. I have a network printer on my Win2K 
>machine (HP Laserjet 1100) and I have 90% of my OS/2 data stored on my 
>Win2K machine. So I need my Win2K machine on the network EVERY DAY.

WinXP and eCS or OS/2 will network.  You have to either add netbeui to
WinXP or use netbios over tcp/ip on your eCS / OS/2 box.  Also, you must
have all of the boxes set to the same workgroup.  Doze2K and previous
defaulted to "workgroup", but DozeXP defaults to MSHome.  Make sure that
all of your boxes are in brain_home, or whatever you call it.  Also, each
box must have a user with the same name that you use to log in to the
other boxes, and must have the resources specifically shared.  Sharing the
root directory of a drive is more difficult in DozeXP than it used to be,
but I'm not sure why.  Sharing directories is just as easy as ever.  This
is all pretty obvious, but they are the usual reasons that shares don't
work. 

I now only hook to 
>my Win2K machine (Win2K saw OS/2 and WinXP, WinXP saw Win2K, OS/2 saw 
>Win2K, OS/2 could see WinXP but could not see the directories in WinXP, 
>WinXP could not see OS/2 at all).

XP is odd in that it can still see MS machines when it can't do anything
else.  What do you expect from MS?  See above.

>I have now spent 2 days and many hours trying to hook to the Win2K 
>machine in OS/2 and my network connections keep failing and it is 
>getting critical as I have a huge HP contract job about to happen and 
>HAVE to have my network SOMEHOW! 50% of the time after trying to log-on 
>in OS/2 the OS/2 machine fails to shutdown requiring a hard shutdown 
>requiring a chkdsk of my 11 HPFS partitions requiring a 15 min restart. 
>I'm really getting pissed-off at OS/2 networking (and OS/2 in general as 
>Win ALWAYS works and with a hell of a lot less work). So can ANYONE tell
>me:

I suggest that you run Unimaint, cleanini, and checkini until they show no
errors.  The shutdown problems that I've seen were generally cured by
doing that.  It's something that you should do whenever you remember it
anyway.  Keeping the excess junk out of the .ini files makes the system
more reliable.

>1) How do I get my damn peer-to-peer networking running again? 2) Can
>OS/2 even network with WinXP (since it DOES with Win2K for about  3
>months at a time before failing)?

I'd check everything that I listed above.

>3) What is wrong with OS/2 networking that it keeps failing (already 3 
>times in 2005)?

I think that it's very stable.  Does the lantran.log tell you that
anything is failing to load at boot?  Cleaning the .ini files is always a
good idea.

>5) Why does my DSL fail every 3-10 days requiring a reboot to get it 
>back (all networking flushes & restarts do nothing to fix it)?

Are you using In-Joy or the built-in firewall on your OS/2 box as the
firewall for the whole network?  If not, I agree with Kris that you're
better off plugging the boxes into the router.

I'm sure that this is frustrating, but I haven't experienced this trouble
with OS/2 / eCS, even when connecting to Doze boxes.  If what I suggested
doesn't work, I hope that one of the real networking experts will help. 
What you want to do can be and is done every day.

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Regards from the Space Coast.

Mike Snyder
msnyder1{at}cfl.rr.com


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