From: Chris Robinson 

Not sure if this is relevant but though I'd post it anyway.  I'm unsure if
this applies to workgroups but it definately does apply to domains.  If you
have a Win2k
client connecting to an NT4 domain and the Win2k client has TCP/IP as the
only protocol then you can experience problems trying to join the domain. 
The same may
be true in a Workgroup?  You should ensure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on
the Win2k PC, if not just lob NETBEUI on and then disable it once you've connected.

Chris.

Randall Parker wrote:

> Hello. Long time no see and all that. Been blogging my brains out.
> http://www.futurepundit.com if you want to see what I've been up to as a huge
> use of my recreational time.
>
> I have  Win2k machine and an NT machine that I've plugged into a hub. I see
> lights on the hub connection and on the NICs. I figure I have electrical
> contact at least. Now some dumb questions since its been a while since I've
> done this.
>
> 1) Do machines have to be in the same group name to see each other?
>    On the Win2k machine I can do a search for a computer by name but there is
> no way to tell it to search in a different workgroup name. I'm guessing that
> the difference in workgroup names is the cause of the no-see no-find by the
two
> computers.
>
> 2) WHere do you change the workgroup name in Win2k?
>
> 3) Can one make a Win2k machine be in two groups at once? If so, how?
>
> 4) Is there some other command that is like netstat that tells more stuff? Or
> should I be using netstat with some command line option? Isn't there some
> command for seeing the NICs and their bindings? I think I've learned and
> forgotten that command a half dozen times over the years.
>
> 5) Is there a way to know whether a ping command is really going out a
> particular NIC?
>
> 6) Is there a superping command that basically amounts to saying "Send this
> ping out this particular NIC"?
>
> 7) Is there a way to verify some machine's ability to even respond to a ping
in
> the first place? How can I know if there is no ping response that it isn't
just
> because one of the machines has pings filtered in its firewall settings? I
have
> ZoneAlarm on one of them with settings I can't remember since its been so
long
> since I messed with it. The other machine (the Win2k machine) was lent to me
> for a project (cool Borland C++ Builder graphics app that I'm writing that's
> fun to write) and I have no idea what its settings are for.
>
> 8) Any handy tools for picking apart these sorts of problems that I ought to
be
> using?

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