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re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 1:47 pm
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Posted by John Doe XVIII (2 messages posted)

ONE MORE THING:

You mention you had XP Home...  You might not be able to fix this problem because 
as far as I know, WinME and WinXP Home can ONLY use "Simple File Sharing" (no way 
to turn it off).  You can only turn it off in WinXP Pro...

Win98 and Win2K will not be able to connect to a WinME and/or WinXP Home machine 
because 98/2k are incompatible with the evil "Simple File Sharing".

On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 1:38 pm, John Doe XVIII wrote:

>Simple answer:

>

>Just turn OFF "Simple File Sharing".  Uncheck that, and like magic everything just 

>starts working...

>

>"Simple File Sharing" has to be the most lame/stupid thing to come out of Microsoft 

>in a long time...

>

>

Written in response to:: re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (John Doe XVIII: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 1:38 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (Daniel Lux: Monday, May 9, 2005 at 7:21 pm)

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Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (yucuis: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 1:43 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (Paul Litchen: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 1:20 am)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (MoJo: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 2:00 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (Trent: Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 7:34 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (kokoon: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 2:22 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (Daniel Lux: Wed, Apr 23, 2003, 8:13 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (John Doe XVIII: Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 1:38 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (John Doe XVIII: Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 1:47 pm)

re: Sharing printer/files with win98 machines to a win xp pro machine (Daniel Lux: Mon, May 9, 2005, 7:21 pm)

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