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A new router and cabling for the Nancy Street Network causes some headaches

The upgrade saga continues ... After about 20 man hours of suffering and experimentation the Nancy Street network has been upgraded to use an Infosmart AFN4000 router. The old black coax cable has been replaced with CAT-5 and the server now has a single network card. The Alcatel ADSL modem is in the router WAN port and all PCs at Nancy Street now hang off the router LAN ports. The following issues remain outstanding for some time:

• No network neighborhoods on any PCs can see the server (this turned-out to be a "phantom" network card problem)..
• NT4 cannot map a share on the server due to "error 53", but the XP Pro workstation has no problem (this was related to the previous problem).

These problems were eventually solved as described on the Router Problems page.

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