I have a question about Connect 
to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:


I am new to networking and I am using a router to connect a Windows 2000 Advanced 
Server box to a Win 98 box.  After several hours, the 98 box can now "see" the 2000 
box, and can send and retrieve files to and from  it.  Although my 98 machine is 
listed under "computers near me" on the 2000 box, I can not see any folders that 
are shared on 98 box.  When I click on the icon for the 98 computer (Holly) I get 
the error:

\\Holly is not accessible.

The network path was not found.

Any ideas?

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Do you have file and print sharing installed on your win98 machine?


On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 12:12 am, Dwayne Pate wrote:

>I have a question about Connect 
>to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:

>
>I am new to networking and I am using a router to connect a Windows 2000 Advanced 
>Server box to a Win 98 box.  After several hours, the 98 box can now "see" the 2000 
>box, and can send and retrieve files to and from  it.  Although my 98 machine is 
>listed under "computers near me" on the 2000 box, I can not see any folders that 
>are shared on 98 box.  When I click on the icon for the 98 computer (Holly) I get 
>the error:
>
>\\Holly is not accessible.
>
>The network path was not found.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>

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I had exactly this problem and found it was due to my firewall (ZoneAlarm). I configured ZA to accept my LAN adapter, and everything worked perfectly!.............. Rex


On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 11:46 pm, grneyedbandit wrote:
>Do you have file and print sharing installed on your win98 machine?
>
>

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I have exactly the same problem - did reconfiguring the firewall solve your problems? Peter


On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 12:12 am, Dwayne Pate wrote:

>I have a question about Connect 
>to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:

>
>I am new to networking and I am using a router to connect a Windows 2000 Advanced 
>Server box to a Win 98 box.  After several hours, the 98 box can now "see" the 2000 
>box, and can send and retrieve files to and from  it.  Although my 98 machine is 
>listed under "computers near me" on the 2000 box, I can not see any folders that 
>are shared on 98 box.  When I click on the icon for the 98 computer (Holly) I get 
>the error:
>
>\\Holly is not accessible.
>
>The network path was not found.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>

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Peter, I did not have a firewall on the system. I have since that time decided to install Windows XP on the 98 box. Although my networking problems are solved (sweet) I am having trouble with some games (d'oh). Just wondering, what are you using to connect your systems? I have a Linksys 4-port router. Dwayne


On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 4:42 am, Peter wrote:
>I have exactly the same problem - did reconfiguring the firewall solve your problems?
>
>Peter
>
>

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Hi Dwayne, I'm using a vigor2600 router/firewall/ADSL modem, and although it acts as a DHCP server I'm starting to doubt its ability to act as a DNS server as well, which may be the root of my problems. Cheers, Peter


On Monday, February 10, 2003 at 10:07 pm, Dwayne wrote:
>Peter,
>
> I did not have a firewall on the system. I have since that time decided to
>install Windows XP on the 98 box. Although my networking problems are solved (sweet)
>I am having trouble with some games (d'oh). Just wondering, what are you using to
>connect your systems? I have a Linksys 4-port router.
>
>Dwayne
>
>

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This asswer is to all of you asking about connecting win200, XP, 98,ME in a home network setup. as you know, It doesent work the first time. if it worked - buy a lottery ticket - you are the luckiest person on this earth. The good news is that it can work. I just solved a major problem I had connecting 4 computers in a home networking enviroment. one is 98, one ME, one 2000, one XP. it began with 3x98 and 1xME. all worked fine. when I installed 2000 on one 98 computer, and XP on the other... first, I could not see the ME. At all. Not even a ping. that was solved by replacing my hub's power supply (it took me 4 nights to accidently figure that out - the ME is connected with a very long cable, and probably because of that only works at 10MBPS. the longer cable just found a common problem - bad power supplies, bad hubs and bad connections are a more common cause for network problem than anything else. so - when you have problems - get a simple cross cable and tart by connecting the computer to each other one by one. when they all see each other in pairs - start reconnecting to your hub or switch. second problem: when I tried to connect to the 2000 computer, it worked from XP, but not from 98 or ME. I could see them but got a message asking for some unknown password. I use a fixed password for everything at home - its the only password I type in' and yet it didnt worked. it couldent connct to a resource called ICP$ or IPC$... whatever. that had something to do with software, not hardware. I tried to play with the 2000, with the XP to figure out what it could connect, I tried different things, ane ended up making the previously available XP a second version of the win 2000 with the stupid password thing. Now I had to computers with the same problem. the 2000 was solved by uninstalling and re installing the network drivers and services, reconfiguring the IP addresses and so on. the XP problem was immuned to this tritment. I even mannaged to get things worse: I could ping all computers from the XP, but all other computers could not ping it! and yet, misteriously, pcanywere form XP could controll all the other computer (that requires 2 way communication) so again, hardware is fine - its a software thing. I first managed to get it back to being pingable by disabling the XP firewall. I accidently turned it on before. now I could see it again, but had the IPC$ thing (or is it ICP$?) looking for an unknown password. That was solved by selecting computer managment from control panel, in acounts, there is a place you select who can connect to the commputer. make sure you have "everyone" on the list! thats it! simple isnt it?... I hope it helps Bye Arik. PS I have no idea if it helps, dut someone told me it speeds things up: search for the file "lmhosts". you will find a sample file that explains how to prepare an lmhosts file. do it, and save as lmhosts without an extention. it tels the computer what to look fore if the auto search fails. some more important info that might help: use TCP/IP, remove NETBEUI. in tcp/ip settings: set IP addresses: 192.168.1.X set subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 x is 1 to 4 in my case. In lmhost I have: 192.168.1.1 mycomp #pre 192.168.1.2 wifecomp #pre 192.168.1.3 soncomp #pre 192.168.1.4 dogcomp #pre The #pre means it pre loaded, befor the net search, so the computer has an idea what to look for, or at leat gives to the link right away. "mycomp" "wifecomp" soncomp" "dogcomp" are the names I asign to my computers. (I'm always asked why my dog needs a computer. well duh! figure it out by yourself.) the numbers are IP addresses, and everything here needs to corespond to the actual settings on the differnt computers. Bye. Now it for real. Arik.

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I have the same problem. Did you find the answer?


On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 12:12 am, Dwayne Pate wrote:

>I have a question about Connect 
>to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:

>
>I am new to networking and I am using a router to connect a Windows 2000 Advanced 
>Server box to a Win 98 box.  After several hours, the 98 box can now "see" the 2000 
>box, and can send and retrieve files to and from  it.  Although my 98 machine is 
>listed under "computers near me" on the 2000 box, I can not see any folders that 
>are shared on 98 box.  When I click on the icon for the 98 computer (Holly) I get 
>the error:
>
>\\Holly is not accessible.
>
>The network path was not found.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>

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I did not have the ambigious "Microsoft Network" password for the Win98 machine, but that is no bother. You hit "cancel" at the login screen, and it just lets you in. (I had always assumed that those credentials were merely a placebo for Win98 users and had no effective use.) So, I hit "cancel" and was dumped into the desktop. I had already created the wide-open share on the XP box and both computers were connected to the LAN. I ran \\computername and was given a password prompt to access the XP machine &mdash "you need a password to access \\computername\ipc$". No, not a username and password prompt; rather, just a password prompt with no discernable username associated with it. I left it blank and hit "okay" (fully expecting that to work). It did not work.So could you give me the solution for that Hashim

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hi i am nasim i am facing problem. when i concet xp/win98 machine to windows2k server with active directory error apper The network path was not found or some time error apper the server is not configure for transaction, or not access

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1. connect from win98 to win xp 2.win xp ask you for stupid IPC$ password 3.in win98 -control panel -users, create user and password, 4.restart win98 and log on to win98 with this user name 5. in win xp computer management create identical user and password 6. and you can connect from win98 to win xp (after that win xp do not ask you for IPC$ of ICP$ password I try that and this work

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I just wanted to thank the user about the firewall comment. Zone Alarm was my culprit. I had this exact problem. Thanks so much for your help!

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