Re: [WinMac] NetBios problem?

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:25:22 -0500

At 02:09 AM 3/24/99 -0800, Måns Langert wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have problems launching VirtualPC/Win95 (VPC ver 2.1.1) if I have
>DAVE 2.0 installed. VPC launches, starts Win95 but after a while it
>freezes and I can't force VPC to quit, I have to restart the Mac the
>hard way. If I restart without DAVE it's no problem. Could it be a
>NetBios conflict?
>I'm runnning on a PB1400c/166 with MacOS 8.5.1.
>Any suggestions any one?

It probably is related to Windows networking. Try booting Win95 in safe
mode. On a normal machine I'd hold down F8 as it boots, but I'm not sure if
that works in VPC. If it works and you can do without it, remove everything
in the Network control panel.

Are you using the same computername for DAVE as VPC? Win95 should handle
computername conflicts pretty gracefully ("Your computername is already in
use, pick a new one.") but your config could be weird enough to mess it up.
In that case the solution is to boot in safe mode and give VPC a different
computername.

Also try running VPC with DAVE off, use Save State in VPC, turn DAVE on,
then restore the VPC state. It should get messy ;-)

If you're running VPC on that machine you must really need it! I tried it
on a 180Mhz 603e Performa w/ 48MB RAM. It ran but I wouldn't use it for
more than a few Win-only utilities.

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Curtis Wilcox          cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
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