re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP - LONG FILE NAME SHARE
Monday, February 16, 2004 at 5:40 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by M Stecher
(1 messages posted)
I haven't read every post here, however apart from the obvious firewall, security
and permission issues. Windows 98 will not see a Long File Name Share, so make sure
you use no more than 8 legal characters and make sure there are no spaces on your
Windows XP Share name..
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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