I have a question about Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network:

I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect the network.

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Alan, I have experienced similar problems networking several XP and Win98SE machines. The XP troubleshooter in help is pretty good. That would be a place to start. It is more comprehensive and better organized than I could attempt in this reply, so I will not try and cover everything that is in there. There is a network setup wizzard in XP that prompts you to make a network setup disk, which you then run on each other computer (including Win98 machines). Personal firewalls can block access between computers. I also installed NETBUI on all our machines (this may just be superstition). NETBUI is on the WinXP setup CD, but you have to jump through hoops to get it. I would recommend this as a last resort. I hope the above is helpufl. Rick


On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:11 pm, Alan Hsu 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:

> I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing
>works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with
>XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network
>at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look
>at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect
>the network.
>
>

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Alan, I had two other thoughts to share. 1) Under WinXP, it seems that I frequently have to go into the administrator account, (open Control Panel,) open Network Connections, select the network connection, and hit "repair". I do this so often, I put a Network Connections icon on the desktop of the Administrator account user. 2) Even when the network is working, after a reboot a WinXP machine, the WinXP machine seems to take longer to connect than a Win98 machine. In other words, right after reboot, the WinXP machine has not yet connected, but may connect successfully on its own after 5 minutes or so. (On a Win98 only network, machines would seem to reconnect after reboot almost immediately.) I hope this is helpful. Rick


On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:11 pm, Alan Hsu 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:

> I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing
>works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with
>XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network
>at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look
>at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect
>the network.
>
>

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I had a similar problem and did exactly as suggested with an XP and an ME machine. On the XP machine I created the network setup diskfrom the wizzard and then installed this on the ME machine. It worked right away. I noticed that the ME wizzard did not support a router while the XP wizzard did.


On Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 2:00 pm, Rick Graves wrote:
>Alan,
>
>I had two other thoughts to share.
>
>1) Under WinXP, it seems that I frequently have to go into the administrator account,
>(open Control Panel,) open Network Connections, select the network connection, and
>hit "repair". I do this so often, I put a Network Connections icon on the desktop
>of the Administrator account user.
>
>2) Even when the network is working, after a reboot a WinXP machine, the WinXP machine
>seems to take longer to connect than a Win98 machine. In other words, right after
>reboot, the WinXP machine has not yet connected, but may connect successfully on
>its own after 5 minutes or so. (On a Win98 only network, machines would seem to
>reconnect after reboot almost immediately.)
>
>I hope this is helpful.
>
>Rick
>

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Microsoft utilise netbios as a way for two computer to talk and see each other on a network. Netbios is not like tcp/ip where each computer is designated an unique ip adress on the network instead it uses socket number and distinct name. Because of this it cannot pass trought a router. now i'm not sure if your network is using the router as a way to connect to the internet or if you are using the routeur to separate the two machine. In the later case you will never be able to see the other computer but you should be able to use the internet. If your routeur is connected by wan at a broad band modem and the other computer inside the network are in lan then you should try enabling file sharing on both the machines. if that dosent work you can always use the networking disk that is created using the winxp cdrom on your win98 machine aldo i find this solution to be lacking. Also make sure that both your computer are in the same workgroup and that win98 is uptodate with the latest upgrade.


On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:11 pm, Alan Hsu 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:

> I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing
>works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with
>XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network
>at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look
>at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect
>the network.

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I had a similar problem which was solved once I reconfigured my firewall software on the xp machine. It was Norton Internet Security -- everything worked fine after I ran its configuration tool and told it I wanted to share files and printers on my wireless LAN. -Mark


On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:11 pm, Alan Hsu 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:

> I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing
>works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with
>XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network
>at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look
>at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect
>the network.
>
>

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just copy the netsetup.exe file from your I386 directory from your XP pc to a floppy then run this file from your floppy in the win98/ME pc its will going to ask you the name and workgroup for your pc, enter the correct Workgroup(the same of the XP) the name of the pc should be diferent, and thats all, you can share any files , directorys and printers. Good luck


On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 11:11 pm, Alan Hsu 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:

> I recently tried networking my two computers through a router. The internet sharing
>works perfectly fine, but the file/printer sharing only works on the computer with
>XP. The other computer has windows 98 2nd edition and cannot detect the network
>at all. I was wondering why only the XP machine detects the network and can look
>at files on the other computer while the machine running windows 98 cannot even detect
>the network.
>
>

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