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re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Monday, June 10, 2002 at 9:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rob Galante
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem with the following configuration. I have a home network with
one XP desktop and one Windows 98 desktop. Neither machine could see the other.
When I pinged the machines, I found that the XP machine had an IP address of 169.254.78.1
and the 98 machine had an IP address of 192.168.0.112. So I did some research and
found out that when XP or Windows 2000 machines do not receive their IP addresses
from a DHCP server, they assign one to themselves from Alternative Private IP Addressing
(APIPA), which uses non-routable IP Addresses between 169.254.0.0 and 169.254.255.254,
and a mask of 255.255.0.0.
So I removed APIPA from the registry by creating a DWORD value for the value 'IPAutoconfigurationEnabled
' at the following registry key and initialized it to 0 (It's not there by default
and assumes a value of 1).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\CLSID
Then I assigned a static IP Address to my XP machine of 192.168.0.1. Note that the
CLSID changes for each interface defined on your machine. So search each interface
for the one that has the Alternative Private IP stuff in it and add the value above.
Now, I can share a printer on my XP machine, and my 98 box sees it and uses it. And
both machines can see each other.
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 10:47 am, Matthew Tilove wrote:
>I have a question about Connect
>a Windows XP or 2000 system to a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:
>
>My network consists of two computers: a laptop ('LAPTOP') running WinXP and a desktop
>('MBT') running Win98. Internet connection sharing is running fine (The XP machine
>is sharing its connection), but I can't get file or print sharing to work. The 98
>machine won't recognize the XP machine in the network neighborhood, although I can
>ping the XP machine and get a response. The XP machine does recognize the 98 machine,
>and all of the shares are displayed in My Network Places - but I cannot access any
>of them. Furthermore, from the XP machine I can't ping "MBT" (I get a "could not
>find host" error), but if I enter the IP address ping works fine.
>
>Both machines are logged in with the same user name and password, and simple file
>sharing is turned on on the XP machine.
>
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
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