Windows 95/98 Networking (without DHCP)

If you are not using a DHCP server, please follow the instructions to configure the network properties

on each client computer.
1. double-click Network icon in Control Panel
2. click Configuration Tab, select the network interface adapter (TCP/IP->xxxxx Ethernet Adapter) for the LAN (don’t select Dial-Up Adapter). If you don’t see a TCP/IP binding for your network adapter, please do Add button->Add Protocol->select Microsoft->select TCP/IP->OK.
3. click the Property button to open the TCP/IP Properties window.
4. click IP Address Tab, enter the IP address for this computer (i.g. 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, …etc.) and 255.255.255.0 for the Subnet Mask
5. click DNS Configuration Tab, then select Enable DNS, enter the IP address of the gateway running ComSocks (i.g. 192.168.0.1).
6. click Gateway Tab, enter your gateway IP here again.
7. close all the window by clicking the OK button. It may be required to reboot your machine.
- on the gateway computer, please repeat the above instruction 1,2,3,4,7. The IP address should be 192.168.0.1 at this time. Do not configure the DNS and Gateway Tab.

The following is the result of your local network settings:

Internal Network Adapter Configuration	Gateway Computer	Client Computer
Identification	gate	baby
Workgroup	thiscompany	thiscompany
Internal Network Adapter	TCP/IP ->3Com EtherLink	TCP/IP ->Compaq Integrated Netflex-3/P Controller
Internal IP Address	192.168.0.1	192.168.0.2
DNS Configuration	Disable DNS	IP: 192.168.0.1 Host: baby Domain: thiscompany.com
GateWay	[blank]	192.168.0.1
WINS Configuration	Disable WINS	Disable WINS
Bindings	[default]	[default]

DO NOT CHANGE THE DNS AND GATEWAY SETTINGS FOR THE INTERNET NETWORK ADAPTER IN YOUR GATEWAY COMPUTER !

See also How to resolve local host names , Using a DHCP server