re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 9:52 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by pann1128
(1 messages posted)
Thanks for the tip on the NetBios. Don't now if you already solved the problem of
accessing Win XP file from your Win98 computer. I had the same problem, and I resolved
it by going to the the "Properties" for each drive (from Windows Explorer) on the
XP and adding a user in the "Security" menu. This user must have the same username/password
on both machines.
On Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 5:44 am, Wim Remes wrote:
>I have a problem that goes in the same direction.
>My LAN consists of a 98 Desktop & an XP Desktop.
>The 98 is running a proxy server for obvious reasons (ICS suxx big time).
>In the beginning only internet was working for both PC's but they couldn't see eachother
>on the LAN. Then I found that I need to specifically enable NetBIOS on the XP machine
>and boom it just found all the shares,printers,... just like that ... (uPnP...oops)...
>I can access the shares on the 98 machine from XP without a prob, but not the other
>way around (no it is not an NTFS issue). Furthermore, I am unable to play games
on
>the internet from the XP machine AND it is impossible to upload files (e.g. through
>ICQ) ...
>Ping -> OK
>HTTP -> OK
>HTTPS -> OK
>SMTP -> OK
>POP -> OK
>
>Any thoughts, let me know ...
>
>cheers;
>
>Wim
>
>mail me !
>
>
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