re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 3:40 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Richard (1 messages posted) (I know this is an old thread, but here goes) The issue usually is a mis matched subnet for the workstation's IP address. Check that the subnets are the same on both server and workstation. On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 6:56 pm, Ashwin Khandke wrote: >1) Use your WIN2K machine has the server. >2) At startup, start the WIN2K machine only. >3) Log onto your DSL connection >4) Then start your WIN98SE machine >5) On your WIN98SE machine, check in INTERNET EXPLORER, TOOLS, INTERNET OPTIONS, >CONNECTIONS, LAN SETTINGS - Select "automatically detect connections". Disable (uncheck) >all other options on the page. >6) The following settings need to be checked if you were using the machine on another >network >CONTROL PANEL / NETWORK / IDENTIFICATION >WORKGROUP/ >NETWORK/CLIENT FOR MICROSOFT NETWORKS PROPERTIES >WINDOWS NT DOMAIN: >7) Name your client machines and give your workgroup a name using the same CONTROL >PANEL / NETWORK / IDENTIFICATION/ WORKGROUP/ >8) After this, select what you wish to share on the network. Simply right click on >that folder in EXPLORER and select the SHARING option. >9) Often in Windows Explorer, or in Network Neighbourhood, you may not be able to >see the other computers. I do not know why, but that does not mean that the network >is not active. However, you could go to START/RUN/ and then type in \\Name_of_computer. >That is 2 reverse slashes, followed by the name of the computer. Click on OK. This >should bring up an EXPLORER pane showing the shared folders on the computer you have >just selected. > >I hope that this gets you on your way > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Ashwin Khandke: Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 6:56 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (EM: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 8:05 am) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Michael: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 9:13 am) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (MeTaL: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 10:52 am) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Ashwin Khandke: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 6:56 pm) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Michael: Mon, Aug 5, 2002, 10:33 pm) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Richard: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 3:40 pm) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (Timur: Tue, Mar 18, 2003, 5:18 am) re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' (JHolcomb: Mon, May 26, 2003, 12:50 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum