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re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network'
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 3:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gerard meij
(1 messages posted)
Hello
Have you tried putting them all in the same workgroup?
the new XP/2000 machines are very particular about
workgroup/domain setting
M$ again made it extremely difficult to make an easy
task as connecting over a network possible ( to get more selling of their shiitty
products, probably)
good luck
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 6:47 am, tommy tran wrote:
>I have a question about Connect
>to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:
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>Here is my network problems. I have a client network using all windows 98. All of
>them have been configure with tcp/ip and can share files and see each other every
>time i go to network neighborhood. THen later, the manager wanted to upgrade his
>old 98 and bought a brand new computer with xp home preinstalled. Whenever The xp
>is online, the rest of the network died. You can't see anything and the error message
>"Unable to browse the network appear on the windows 98 machines. Strangely enough,
>on xp you can see the name of all the computer on the network but when I tried to
>connect to them, i got the error "\\name is not accessible, you may not have permission...".
>Then i type in the address space "\\192.168.0.2", then it can connect to that computer.
>THe same thing did not happened when i put on the address on the win98 machines.
>There was not a DNS server or wins server what-so-ever.
>The problem is resolved when I took the xp home offline.Then all the 98 seems to
>talk to each other again. I tried to put NetBeui on all the machines but still no
>luck. ANy one can suggest me for a solution, would be appreciated
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