The Real answer
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by rainless
(1 messages posted)
I won't say it's easy, but all you have to do, it seems, is install the IPX/SPX protocol
and enable Netbios. Forget about the Static IP address and all that crap. (I have
a DHCP server built onto my router.) Forget about the Internet Connection Sharing
too (unless you need it. I spent ALL DAY working on this problem and I tried every
conceivable option. Then, once I got it to work, I went backwards to see what I
could keep and what I could do without.
Somebody mentioned they "weren't even able to ping there own computer". Stated it
was a problem with the firewall. You *shouldn't* be able to ping your own computer.
I was able to turn on the firewall in windows AND the firewall on my router. I
still got the Windows 98SE and XP computers to see each other. I got rid of UdNP
or whatever. Still worked. Got rid of the user somebody here suggested I create.
Still worked. Matter of fact the only thing I did was install the Netware IPX drivers
and enable Netbios in XP and I installed Netbui and IPX in Windows 98. My network
is faster than I could have ever dreamed.
Hope this helps somebody.
On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 4:42 pm, Scott wrote:
>I'm helping a school with a Win98 and WinXP file/mapped drive sharing issue. The
> pseudo server used to be a Win98 machine with mapped drives. These folders contained
>files for programs the kids used. When they are done creating whatever they work
>on they then save off to another folder (mapped drive). Now that the pseudo server
>is a new WinXP Home machine we're seeing something very strange. Half the machines,
>8 in total, cannot seem to access the XP machine when opening, what should be,
a
>shared file. I've checked all the settings between the 8 PCs and the XP machine
>and I believe all is set correctly. If I shutdown 4 of the PCs then the other 4
>can get on fine. If all 8 are on only four can access the shared drives. You see
>this error, or message, on boot up. Cannot access Drive E:(blah blah), then the
>next shared drive and so on until it's gone through all shared drives.
>
>Any ideas?
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