Phil -- I want to thank you for your post of 2/19/02. Here it is over a year later, 
and your info has helped me immensely. I too was setting up a network for file sharing, 
and have spent about 12 total hours in frustration. I am an advanced user, and know 
networking, BUT never thought to check the "Norton Personal Firewall" that was running 
on the W98 machine. I disabled it, and BANG the XP computer immediately listed all 
of the file shares, printers, etc. I thought I was going crazy; went and bought new 
NIC's, cables, countless reboots, and reinstalls of the networking software. Well...make 
a long story short, I was on Google and searched for help, and up came your thread 
from this board. Ten seconds later I was up and running, now I can get some sleep.
Many thanks, and Cheers! TL 






On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 5:46 pm, Phil Docker wrote:
>I have had a real problem with XP and Win 98 talking.  I have just solved it.  My 
>problem was that I could not even 'ping' myself, using typing 'ping 127.0.0.1' at 
>the ms dos prompt in Xp.  I found it to be NORTON PERSONAL FIREWALL 2002.  I unistalled 
>it now my network works great, both was xp-90 and 98-xp.   My advice is download 
>the free home firewall on the Sygate web site and throw norton away....
>All the best
>Phil
>
>

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