re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 8:59 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by astro3ron
(1 messages posted)
On the Win98SE system, I have no need to share the printers on either system and
therefore, did not check the share printers. To make this work, files and printers
must both be shared?
On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 at 7:13 am, zimba wrote:
>I had teh exact same problem except I couldn't even ping my win98 desktop from my
>winxp laptop. I could see the desktop icon in My Network Places in winxp, but could
>not either open it nor ping desktop.
>
>I could ping laptop from desktop, but not see laptop icon in Network folder in desktop
>(win98). Since i was able to ping the xp (laptop), here's how i accessed files on
>xp:
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>Start -> Run: \\ipaddress of xp
>
>This opened up a window showing all the shared folders on the laptop(xp). File transfers
>were then possible, but only from the desktop.
>
>Then 3 days later, my desktop caught some virus and got very sick. It's registry
>was wiped out along with the VFAT. So I had to re-format the C: drive and re-install
>the OS.
>NB: Just deleting the windows folder and re-installing the OS gave the same network
>problems. After the formatted install, I forgot to enable file sharing on desktop.
>(Did installation 2 days ago). Today I wanted to share a file on my desktop with
>my laptop, so I went to desktop and opened the network folder, and to my amazement,
>I could see the laptop icon! This was good! I then remembered that since the workgroup
>are still the same, this is ok. I then enabled file sharing on the desktop, and
this
>time both showed up on desktop. I checked on laptop, and both were showing here
too!
>Ping worked from both sides this time. Icons were also showing on both computers
>- and finally, I was now able to access my files from both the computers - win98
>and winXP.
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