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re: 2 win98se, 1 xp home w/ router network wizard issue
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 7:42 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Smiley McAnswer
(1 messages posted)
Did you check windows XP connection to make sure the personal firewall is disabled?
(right click on the connection from viewing it, properties > advanced > uncheck)
It will stop communication from another computer to it on a workgroup. The 98 naming
of the computer for the workgroup is also another thing to check.
On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 2:35 pm, Bob Moore wrote:
>I had similar problems on two seperate LAN's. Turned out that the computer NAMES
>on the Win98 computers (right click network neighborhood, select properties...identification...computer
>name) had spaces in them. While this doesn't seem to bother Win98, WinXP can't
handle
>it. It might find the computer and even ask for a pasword, but would not respond
>in any way if one was entered. On one computer, the name was changed from Duron
>1200 to duron12...problem solved! On the other, the name "pentium4 " had a space
>AFTER it that one could not see in the computer name window. On a hunch, I renamed
>it to "pentium4" (no space)...Problem solved! Give it a try. Good Luck!
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