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[[O]nYxX]

Hi again everyone.

First of all let me say that I've red everything (I think) and found that
many are having this problem but no one seems to know how to fix it.

I have 8 machines of which 3 have XP HE(1 is the host) and 5 have 98SE. Here
are the problems:

1. The win98 boxes can not see anything; no printer (shared on the host), no
shared folders and not even each other, they do however, have acces to the
Internet!!!!!.

2. The XP machines can see everything, 98 and XP machines but file transfer
between them is very slow (about 4 minutes for a 5Mb file!!).

3. All though I have internet access in all machine (thru ICS on the host),
it is slower than when I had Win 98Se on all macines using Winproxy (yes, I
recently started upgrading to XP).

I was able to download at almost 60Kbps before, now I barely reach 15Kbps.

I'm running TCP/IP on ALL machines, nothing else. I have NetBIOS over TCP/IP
enabled on ALL machines.

I have try configuring all the clients manually and I've tried it using the
Wiz.

One of the things I did also, is create a second Work Group for the 98Se.
Then all the 98SE machines saw each other on that new WG but still were not
able to see the XP machines on the original WG. From the XP machiens I was
able to see machines in both WGs!!!!

The host was configured step by step following the article: HOW TO:
Configure Internet Connection Sharing in Windows XP (Q306126), HOW TO:
Configured a

Static Client for Windows XP ICS (Q309642) and many, many more docs.

Can I disable ICS and ICF and go back to Winproxy using XP? I have tried
disabling ICF alone on my shared Internet connection but it did not make a
diference

on the slugish Internet problem.

I think I've try everything to solve these problems but nothing works. I am
at the point where I'm thinking that XP's networking sucks big time and I'm
better off going back to 98SE. Is that it? Should I give up trying and go
back to 98SE and miss all the other nice things that XP has to offer? I
really hope not. I'm sure the answer is out ther some where I just hope I
can find it soon. I use these machines in a Cyber Cafe in Argentina so I
need them to run ALMOST perfectly.

Hopefully I gave you all the details that you need. If not, feel free to
e-mail me or do the right thing and post a follow up message. I'll be happy
to answer

any and all questions you have regarding these problems.

I am off to disect www.practicallynetworked.com.

Thank you guys very much,

Gary

[Cari]

1. Disable QoS in the Network Properties of the XP PC. It hogs bandwidth

2. Look at the Properties of the NIC in XP and ensure that the speed of the
card is set to 100 and NOT to AutoSense.

3. Enable the Guest Account of the XP PC to enable the other PCs to share
its files....... or add each and every one of the UserNames/Passwords of the
other PCs as UserAccounts on the XP PC.

4. Make sure the drives of the XP PC are set to be shared (Properties of
the relevant drives).

Cari
www.coribright.com
"[O]nYxX" <gary...@arnet.com.ar> wrote in message
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[Jeffrey M. Evans]

Cari <Britw...@coribright.com> wrote:

> 1. Disable QoS in the Network Properties of the XP PC. It hogs
> bandwidth

I don't have any heartburn with the rest of your suggestions, but #1 is bad
info.

Read KB article Q316666. It concerns QoS and has a paragraph towards the
end that specifically addresses the misunderstanding you're relating.

Disabling QoS probably won't hurt the original poster's performance, but it
probably won't help him either. And should he be running or ever run an
application that is QoS enabled, it could disabling QoS could actually do
some harm.

Jeff Evans