On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:54:18AM +1300, Hyder, Karen (FXNZ AKL) wrote:
> I am running freeradius version 0.3 on an NT network for our dial up users.
> It seems we have no problems with windows NT machines dialing up and
> accessing everything on our network.  However when a 95/98 machines logs in,
> we cannot see anything in network neighbourhood, or ping anything on our
> network.  Does anyone have any ideas of why this would be?

Sure.  Win9x is a broken client OS that doesn't know how to
automatically exchange browse lists with other subnets on the WAN, even
though it advertises itself via NetBIOS as being able to do so.

I don't think there is any work-around that will allow Win9x to see a 
remote network neighborhood, short of putting a machine with a brain
(such as NT, Samba, or Win2K) on the subnet with it.

The ping issue, OTOH, should be resolvable.  Are you trying to ping by 
name, or by IP address when this fails?

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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