RE: Home networking without NetBios

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

Errrr, have you looked at the use netbios over tcp/ip setting in the
advanced tcp/ip settings for your NIC?

Quite happily running a peer2peer XP network while my servers are in
storage.

Cheers, Des.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James,Daniel [mailto:Daniel.James@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:50
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home networking without NetBios
>
>
> Paul
>
> Thanks for this, it still leaves the mystery in my mind of why Mr
Gates
> makes it nigh on impossible for someone to build a peer to peer
network
> using XP... or am I being synical?
>
> I'll stick with NetBios for now though, as spending Christmas
configuring
> machines does not appeal :-)
>
> Yours (one very anti WinXP!)
>
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 December 2002 11:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Home networking without NetBios
>
>
> Daniel,
>
> Your choices are pretty much:
>
> 1) stay with NetBIOS - nice & simple
>
> 2) Use Active Directory & DDNS - very much less simple!
>
> You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.... of course you
> only have the
> choice if your "server" running Win2K is actually running
win2K
> server, not
> Win2K professional...
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "James,Daniel" <Daniel.James@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: "Ukha_D (E-mail)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Home networking without NetBios
> >Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:17:08 -0000
> >
> >Hi all
> >
> >I have a question regarding my home network:
> >
> >I have:
> >1 fileserver (Running Windows 2K )
> >2 Fuji's running Windows 95
> >1 desktop running Win98
> >1 Laptop running Win98
> >1 Laptop running XPpro
> >
> >Now I run these with an ADSL router, and each machine on a static
IP
> >
> >I am running NetBios / TCP/IP as the networking protocol(s)
although it
> >took
> >me ages to find NetBios for XP as I see that Mr Gates no longer
supports
> >NetBios. :-)
> >
> >My question is, what do I do in the place of NetBios? - As I see
it, if I
> >remove it, I can no longer see other machines on my network. - Is
there a
> >better way of configuring this network to run with say TCP/IP
only?
> >
> >Many thanks
> >
> >Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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