re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 10:34 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by shyam
(1 messages posted)
First off, I must say that this thread has been immensely helpful: thanks to all
who have contributed. I think my problem is an XP-98 issue, but I’m not sure. I’ve
got two computers running XP, and two older ones running 98SE. They’re connected
by a linksys wireless router. Oddly, the oldest of the computers running 98SE shows
up on the network. My second computer running 98SE doesn’t show up on any other computer
as being in the network, yet, I’m able to access all the other computers from it:
all four computers show up on its network neighborhood, where as three computers
only show up on the others’ network neighborhoods.
There are no extra, XP particular protocols running on any of the computers, and
netbios is enabled over TCP/IP. They’re all under the same workgroup name. I don’t
have any sort of personal firewall installed on any of the computers. Oddly, when
I connect an XP into the problem 98 computer by an Ethernet cable, I can’t see the
problem 98 computer on the network, but I can directly access shared resources. However,
over the wireless network, I can’t do this.
Any one have any clues?
Thanks
On Thursday, July 10, 2003 at 1:55 pm, John wrote:
>On Monday, March 3, 2003 at 8:10 am, ems wrote:
>Had the same problem. If you're using WinXP Professional, here is the solution:...
>
>Howdy Gang,
>
>Thanks to all who've contributed to the Win98<->WinXP networking thread. I appreciate
>all the info. Now, here's what I found with my particular setup:
>
>Installed WinXP Pro 5 days ago onto a Promise Technology driven pair of 40GB WD
hard
>drives. My PC is a Micron PIII, 667Mhz. I have (2) other PCs on my network working
>through (1) Linksys and (1) Addtron switches. Both of the other PCs are Win98SE.
>
>
>I booted to XP and was unable to perform Windows Updates using IE6 via my DSL connection.
>In fact, I couldn't get ANY downloading to work. I found there was a Windows IRQ
>sharing conflict between my OEM US Robotics 56k modem (vintage 1999) and the Promise
>TX2000 RAID card. Loading new drivers for both devices didn't clear the problem.
>Moving the modem to a different slot helped. So, I left the modem in.
>
>My next discovery was sloooooooow networking between PCs (that's how I ended up
here
>via Google). I did the recommended. "check this, check that", and even installed
>TweakDUN. Same slooooooooooow networking. On a hunch, I pulled the modem. My network
>is back to normal and hauls a$$.
>
>I'm not sure it will help anyone else, but I wanted to offer my experience back
to
>the forum.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
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