XP and my local network
Posted on October 29, 2003 @ 21:11 in Software
Okay, I've now installed Windows XP four (FOUR!) times before figuring out why it won't play nice with my local network. I run my local network over the NETBEUI protocol, because that protocol is not routable over TCP/IP and hence the traffic on my local network is quite effectively shielded from anything that has to do with the internet. For some reason Microsoft thinks NETBEUI is not hip anymore, so Windows XP doesn't automatically install that protocol when you set it up. No biggie, because Microsoft thoughtfully includes all the necessary files on the cd-rom in /valueadd/msft/net/netbeui directory.
So, how do you usually install a network protocol on Windows? You go to the properties of the network card, you choose to install a new protocol, you point Windows to the location of the files and everything gets installed. If you follow this course of action on a fresh install of XP, the install appears to go smoothly, no complaints. However, NETBEUI is NOT installed at this point! Only when I manually dug into the aforementioned directory did I find a little textfile saying that I should manually copy two files over into two different system directories and then follow the aforementioned strategy for installing the protocol. When you do that, there's no problem and the local network works just fine.
Ugh and yuk.
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hey, you didn't expect they would actually make it easy for you, now would you? :)
Posted by lok on November 03, 2003 @ 15:22
I know... silly me!
Posted by Frank on November 03, 2003 @ 15:33
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