Adding an XP Machine to a 98 network

[Greg]

I have a small peer to peer network with 4 Win 98se machines.

I having problem seeing the XP machine on the network.

Everytime I run the network wizard, I get a Spooler Sub System App error.

Message reads, "spooler sub system has encountered a problem".

Any suggestions

 

[Jaymista]

I have a small peer to peer network with 4 Win 98se machines.

I having problem seeing the XP machine on the network.

Everytime I run the network wizard, I get a Spooler Sub System App error.

Message reads, "spooler sub system has encountered a problem".

Any suggestions

I have the same problem running a system with Windows ME to my XP
computer. I followed the instructions of making a special program on a
disk with XP and then use that disk on the ME computer but that didn't
seem to work in that I still can't share info between the two computers.
I had a system of two ME before I updated one to XP and the system
worked ok.

 

[Carl]

Do you have fat file system on the XP machine.Windows 98 will not see ntfs
files that XP may be useing.
Hope this helps, I am no expert here either
Carl

 

[Greg]

Can I change the file system to FAT?

Do you have fat file system on the XP machine.Windows 98 will not see ntfs
files that XP may be useing.
Hope this helps, I am no expert here either
Carl

 

[Peter Hutchison]

Do you have fat file system on the XP machine.Windows 98 will not see ntfs
files that XP may be useing.
Hope this helps, I am no expert here either
Carl

Rubbish it is IRRELEVANT what file system a computer uses on a
network, 98 machines can see files on a different computer.

What dos matter is that you have the correct WORKGROUP names set up
and that you have TCP/IP (do not use Netbeui as its too old) with the
correct IP addresses etc.

See http://www.practicalnetworking.com

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/