Win 95 Network Setup (Part 2)
NetworkStart Win 95 and go to control panel. From here double click Network.

Under the configuration tab you will need (if this hasn't been done automatically):-
Add adapter - Should have detected adapter at top, if not select yours from the list.
Add client - Client for Microsoft Networks.
Add protocol - Select Microsoft TCP/IP.
Add protocol - Select Microsoft NetBEUI.
Add service - Select Microsoft File & printer sharing of MS Networks

Properties need to be set for the above settings
NE2000 and compatable (the Lan adapter). Properties required are:- Driver type - Enhanced mode (32 & 16 bit).
Client for Microsoft Networks. Properties needed by this are "Logon and restore network connections."
NetBEUI - Properties are - tick in box for Client for MS Networks and for File & printer sharing.
TCP/IP - Properties are - IP Address - Specify IP. This can be left in "auto mode", but I have had totally stable results in assigning an IP. If you intend going on the internet with your Lan, the machine with the modem on it will need to be set with its IP ending with the number "1". An IP address is like a phone number for a pc. You cannot ring Joe Blogg's phone if you actually ring Fred Nerk's number.
The number we are going to use for the first PC (one with modem) is 192.168.1.1
Note also that PC 1 should be at the end of the cable. Pc 2 should have IP of 192.168.1.2 and naturally if you have more PC's to add, just change the last number - 3 for the third etc.
Back to adapter - Bindings under the property tab for adapter need ticks in NetBEUI & TCP/IP.
Once this is done you will probably be told to restart the computer by Windows. Upon restarting you will still need to do a little more work, but if you have made it this far without too many problems, you are well on you way.

You will also need to give your PC an identifying name. It can be anything you want as long as it is unique. If you have 2 PC's you may want to call them 'red' & 'blue' or 'PC1' & 'PC2'. Once you have got this far, you need to give access of your drive to others. Double click the icon marked My Computer. Single right click your 'C drive', select sharing, change to 'shared as' . Give the drive a name like 'Mikes C' or something relevant. Access type full will give full acces to the drive. This will be needed for all drives you wish to have access to. If you prefer you can select only certain directories and even password others. One of the magic things is if you are working to a budget, you can share a machines CDRom drive. Saving you from having to buy a drive for each machine. Naturally this drive would be set up as read-only.

At this point once all machines have reached this stage, if you have't alraedy been prompted to restart, now would be a good time to reset to allow changes to take effect. Upon restarting, go in to Explorer and select tools, Map Network drive, select the valid drive letter, if you have a CDRom this may be 'E drive'. The path will be \\NameOfMachine\DriveLabel. For example if pc 1 has a machine name of 'red' and the drive label (found in general properties for 'red's c drive) is 'reds c', then other PC's will be able to access this drive by setting the network path to "\\red\reds c".
If a machine has a large patritioned drive, each partition can be treated remotely as a different drive letter, as it can locally.

Once this has successfully been done, The other drives should be visible in Explorer. Since in the network setup, you configured it to 'restore network connections upon startup', you won't need to re-map the drives each time you want to use the Lan.

Thats all there is to it. Easy after you have successfully set one up once, but difficult if you have no one to ask (like I had).

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