re: Troubleshooting windows xp to windows me
Monday, October 14, 2002 at 6:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tenna Anderson
(3 messages posted)
I had finally figured out how to connect all my computers. To date, I do not know
which of the "fixes" did the trick.
I took the following steps.
First I deleted everything I had done to date. Then I reinstalled NetBeui by copying
the files over from the XP disk for the manual installation. Then I redid all of
the ip addresses on the XP computer. I then installed TCP/ICP on the windows 98
computer but did NOT assign a static ip address. (Remember all my other computers
had a static ip address and TCP/IP installed already including the XP computer.
I then rebooted the win 98 computer and logged onto the network using the SAME user
name as the XP computer I logged onto. (I doubt you have to do this.) Then I rebooted
the XP computer, went to network places and voila.. there was my missing win 98 computer!!
To test, I shared the drive on the XP computer and could see files FROM the win 98
computer. And I could see files on the win 98 computer FROM the XP computer. Just
out of curiousity, I checked the ip address section on win 98 computer and mystically,
there was an ip address in there that I had NOT given it, nor was it one of our static
ip addresses. I've come to the conclusion that only Computer Gurus will ever know
the why's and whatfores of what happened. But I am happy that it works now. Some
very nice people wrote to me privately to help me with the problem and I am very
grateful for their help. Thanks to all :)
Tenna
On Sunday, October 13, 2002 at 10:24 pm, Tom wrote:
>Okay -- it's a long ways back from this question being asked, but here's half the
>solution:
>
>WindowsXP is always in a domain, regardless of whether you have it set to a Workgroup
>or not. Thus, to connect to the XP system from the others, you must supply the
logon
>domain. For example, if your computer name is "xp1" and the user is "bob" you would
>pass the username of "xp1\bob" and bob's password. The other direction is what
I'm
>having problems with, though....
>
>
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