Recently I did something on my Win98 box that totally screwed up my networking tools. The net command is gone, the "Network Neighborhood" icon from the desktop is gone, the "Find Computers" option from the Start>Find menu is gone. I can still go online and everything it's jus that all the net tools are gone, I can't connect to shares anymore. Anyone got a clue what I could have done? I think it might have somethin to do with my cable connection and my ethernet adapter, but they work jus fine and the Device Manager doesn't show anything wrong.

easy way out is to just put in the win9x disk and click on repair. It should put all the neccessary files back for you.

lol what the **** did you do?!? hahaha

Here's what I know about file sharing. The "Client for Microsoft Networks" must be installed for port 139 to be open and in order for you to communicate with network shares. This includes your Network Neighborhood icon. It is gone when it is uninstalled, and appears when you reinstall it.

To check to see if it exists:
Control Panel->Network
Do you see "Client for Microsoft Networks" in the list among all those adapters and such? If you do, remove it and reboot. We'll try reinstalling it.

To install it:
Control Panel->Network->Add->Add Client
Select "Client for Microsoft Networks" and install it.

in network, i would remove everything but the adapters, then reinstall and restart (like tcp/ip and client for microsoft networking). that should reinstall net ping telnet.... and everything should be back to normal

gee... everybody is so dead, they're repeating other people's advice out of sheer boredom...

Actually I did not say what you told him, what I said was to remove all but the adapters, there is a difference. sometimes if you have a million adapters and a million tcp/ip, removing 1 will not remove all the TCP/IP files and Reinstall them, it may some. so if you remove all, then reinstall, it removes (suppose to) all and reinstall the files again.

gee... everybody is so dead, they're repeating other people's advice out of sheer boredom...

I agree with Rapture too, that's probably the easiest way to fix your prob..

/me wonders what the hell could he do to screw up everything like that ???

/me is bored

I'ma smack you chem. Don't bring back very old topics which have been adaquatly answered. If you wanna wake up the forum, post something informative. Keep the BS in the off topic forum.

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