Re: W95 DUN and PM-3's

Jeffrey J. Mountin (sysop@mixcom.com)
Wed, 07 May 1997 17:44:09 -0500

At 02:45 PM 5/7/97 -0700, Jon Rust wrote:
>Since upgrading to PM-3's, the number of W95 users complaining of "could
>not negotiate a compatibile protocol" messages has escalated. Folks dialing
>into my old, trusty, PM-2's never have a problem. They switch to the PM-3,
>and they immediately have this problem. Is there something new on the PM-3
>that really, really wants to run IPX???? Is there a way to turn it off? Any
>other ideas?

set ipx off

>PS -- Yes, we have each uyser that calls disable IPX/SPX and NetBEUI in the
>dial-up adapter. Usually this helps, but not everytime. We then have them
>delete everything but TCP/IP and the dial-up adapter from the network
>control panel. Again, usually this catches it, but still not everytime.

So far I have not heard of any problems here with any 95 users on the PM3,
but it did solve some connection problems for a few.

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