re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Monday, April 21, 2003 at 8:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ernest
(3 messages posted)
Hi Jochen
Actually i got it working last night and thought it might useful to you guys in this
forum. However, this set up is only tested for between 2 PCs (between Win98 1st
edition PC and WinXP SP1 notebook, in my case) and have not tried with more than
two PCs.
Let me first give you the current setup in each of my PC/Notebook before getting
into the configuration steps.
1) A standalone PC at home running Win98 1st edition and is configured as a Workgroup
“Home”. A 3Com Ether 3 card.
2) An office notebook with WinXP Pro SP1 configured to login to a Domain name in
the office via a DNS server and also has a MS Proxy configured. A 100/10mbps NIC.
For the purpose of file & CD-Rom sharing, a crossed RJ-45 cable is used to link up
these 2 nodes. Here are the steps used:
1) Turn off DNS name lookup on both PC/Notebook
2) Turn off Proxy lookup on both PC/Notebook
3) On the WinXP, go to Local Security Policy and disable the “Account: Limit local
Account use of blank password to console only”. This option is “Enable” by default.
4) Turn off any kind of firewall currently installed on WinXP or Win98.
I had Sygate installed and firewall protection switched on for the “Local Area Connection”
in WinXP earlier, it causes my Win98 PC not able to access the shared resources on
the WinXP although the WinXP node is displayed in the Win98 network neighborhood.
Once the firewall protection is removed, the problem is gone for good.
5) Now, specify an IP address for each of the PC. In my case, 172.18.1.10 for Win98
and 172.18.1.20 for WinXP.
6) Subnet mask for both PCs, 255.255.255.0
7) Specify the remote PC IP address as the Default Gateway in the local PC. I.E.
Default Gateway for Win98 PC is 172.18.1.20 and 172.18.1.10 for WinXP notebook.
8) Ensure that “File & Printer sharing for MS network” is added and selected on both
PCs.
9) In Win98, in addition to TCP/IP protocol make sure that Netbius is added.
10) Now, connect up the 2 PC/notebook with the crossed RJ-45.
11) Go to the File Explorer window on each of the PC and select whatever you want
it to be shared.
12) Reboot both PC and notebook, go to “MY Network Places” in WinXP and “Network
Neighborhood” in Win98, clik on Entire Network to view the remote node. It may be
slow to display the icon, if you don’t see it still, just keep pressing F5 to refresh
the screen.
As mentioned before, this is set up works fine in my scenario and it might just need
some modifications to suit some other setup. Hope this information is helpful.
Thanks
On Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 5:00 am, Jochen Schroer wrote:
>At the risk of looking dumb, I still can't get the network to connect. We have
two
>Win XP machines and three Win 98 computers connected to a hub. The xp machines
see
>each other and so do the 98 machines. However none of the XP machines sees or
pings
>a 98 machine and vice versa. We checked workgroups, netbios and TCP settings.
The
>settings appear correct to me. During our attempts to resolve the problem, one
of
>the 98 machines was able to share files with an xp computer. However these settings
>were erased when I installed the network setup disk that was prepared by XP. Can
>we re-create the setting? Is there a check list, or some resource we can access?
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>
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