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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, August 21, 2002 at 7:48 pm Posted by Brent (3 messages posted) I've had those kind of problems before.. and it always turned out to be xp. Try uninstalling the network card in xp and adding it again. xp just doesn't seem to like networks. Thats probably M$'s way of making you upgrading your 98 machine :P [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 12:28 pm Posted by Bert (1 messages posted) Hi, It took me 3 days to figure this out, but it works for us. We have a mixed network of W98 and XP (10 pcs). In the 98 pcs: goto the network settings in configuration screen, and activate the 'files and printer sharing for windows networks' for the TCP/IP protocol. Normally it's unflagged. Then in the XP unflag the IPX protocol (if it's installed). Don't install or use netbui. Hope this helps. It's to simple to be true. It worked just fine for us. Finally. Bert On Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 7:58 am, Fuli 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 am trying to connect a WinXP machine and a Win98Se machine directly. Theoretically >the network should be functioning, but I can't even ping the other machine... >Both LAN card have been properly installed, and the LEDs are on. The win98 machine >has an older 10MB Genius card. I am using a crossover cable. If I unplug the cable >the XP reports it. The Xp machine can even recognise the network speed (10MB). I've >tried it with a different network card, in the 98 machine, and XP adjusted the speed >to 100Mb. >I've created a user (with administrator rights on the XP machine) on both machines, >with the same username/password. >Firewall software is currently not running on eiither of the machines. >The machines can ping themselves but not the other. >Addresses are: 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.5 and subnet masks are the same: 255.255.255.0 > >Could anyone please help to figure out, why the network does not start? > >Thank you, > >Fuli [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network' Friday, November 7, 2003 at 2:08 am Posted by ryogalost (1 messages posted) I have the same setup as the first post - winXP pro, win98se, crossover cable between them, two nic cards that are different in the xp machine, only have tcp/ip installed on both. ** I'm using built-in pppoe protocol for my dsl modem AND the internet works fine on both computers. Both are on "WORKGROUP" and have computer names. Both have shared folders and have "windows file sharing" enabled, whatever it's called for each machine. What I did was on the XP (Host) was set both "local area connection"s to DHCP for everything, meaning no IP, no dns, no wins, no gateway, same blank settings for the TCP/IP settings on the 98se machine, then on the XP's pppoe properities -> advanced, I Shared the connection. So the Win98se computer uses one of the local area connections on the XP machine and can see the internet, meaning it can access web sites. My main problem is with Network Neighborhood. The XP machine can see the 98se machine but when I try to open it I get the error "you do not have access... ... contact administrator... Network path not found". The 98se machine couldn't even use Network Neighborhood. So I tried a workaround by adding Netbeui to 98se. It was then able to access the workgroup, but it couldn't see the XP machine. Neither machine can access the other. So I have three questions: 1- how can I get the computers to access each others' folders? NO HUBS/ROUTERS please, I am a poor college student. 2- Can I put Netbeui on the XP somehow? 3- Is there any way to set up the local area connections with ip addresses? I ask b/c when I start my comptuers they take FOREVER to find ip addresses from pppoe (like 5 minutes) and everything freezes until then! It's really annoying. Please note that I've tried a lot of different settings, and this link is useful: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics but it did not help fix my network neighborhood problems. On Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 12:28 pm, Bert wrote: >Hi, > >It took me 3 days to figure this out, but it works for us. We have a mixed network >of W98 and XP (10 pcs). >In the 98 pcs: goto the network settings in configuration screen, and activate the >'files and printer sharing for windows networks' for the TCP/IP protocol. Normally >it's unflagged. >Then in the XP unflag the IPX protocol (if it's installed). Don't install or use >netbui. >Hope this helps. It's to simple to be true. >It worked just fine for us. Finally. >Bert > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum