I am now starting to work with the 'Windows NT 4
Workstation'.
I have freed up a dedicated partition for it on my home-PC (which
I will then operate in Dual-Boot with my Windows95 partition, using the Boot-Manager of
Partition Magic 3.0).
However, when setting up NT4 at work, I had already to learn,
that NT 4 is really different and has now only the pretty looks
in common with Windows95:
If your system has both a 3.5" and 5.25"
floppy drive, make sure that you are NOT
using the BIOS-feature of 'swapping
Floppy drive characters', because NT ignores
that and then you are in all kind of compatibility
problems !
I will not repeat all the Networking/Ethernet basic info, for
that please have a look to the detailed sections is : FAQ Windows 95 Networking and Network
Basics.
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up
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I strongly suggest to follow an advise, which I found myself in
several books on Windows NT:
"During installation of Windows NT4, do NOT
define the network !
Get first the basic system WITHOUT
networking properly up-and-running (including the sound-board, if
you have one) and THEN in a second phase
setup/configure the networking" - NT4 Server