Netwroking with Win98 Machines

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Scott Strugnell

I am attempting to install a new windows XP Professional
Machine onto an exisating windows 98 Network. The
workgroup settings are fine and the ping command on any
of the network nodes IP's returns a response wit 0%
packet loss FROM the XP computer. Ping'ing the XP
computer from the 98 machines yields a Request Time Out.

Using NET VIEW or Windows Explorer, the 98 Computers are
accessible through IP adresses, but none appear under the
Network Computers section of NEtwork Places.

Using Net Neighbourhood on the 98 Machines, The new
computer appears but is inaccessible, returning an error
that the "share name could not be found".

When I ran the network troubleshooter, It diagnosed that
the network name on the new XP machine may not be unique.
However, after following the instructions to modify the
name many a time, nothing was resolved.

The XP Machine is NTFS and the '98 Machines are (of
course) Fat32, does this affect anything?? Please help!!!
 
you must install NetBEUI network protocal on all computers
on your network, Win98 and Win98SE have the drivers for
NetBEUI install by default and all you need to do is just
enable/install NetBEUI on all Win98 computers, THEN for
the XP computers you need to actually install the drivers
for NetBEUI mannually from the WinXP CD or you can just
download the driver install that I created myself to make
it simple below, after you install the NetBEUI drivers for
XP then you must enable/install NetBEUI network protocal.

To have a network with computers running WindowXP Home and
WindowsXP Pro you need the NetBEUI network protocall
installed on all the computers running WinXP, once
installed you will be able to see other computers on your
home or office network, you can then share files, upload
and download files, delete files on there computers on
your network.

NOTE: NetBEUI is a extreamly low securtiy protocal and is
a temparay solution for networking computers because it
has NO security AT ALL, and Microsoft does not support
NetBEUI anymore. If you decide to install NetBEUI I
recommend connecting them to a ROUTER with a firewall
enabled on the router.

Once the NetBEUI driver is installed you must restart your
computer, then open network connection properties and
use "Install..." button to add NetBEUI protocol. Restart
your computer again and your set. Download NetBEUI below.

http://www.lvcm.com/cyberthug/netbeui/NetBEUIxp.exe

This is a WinRAR self extracting file that i created that
will install the NetBEUI drivers correctly into your
C:\windows\ folder ( some winXP windows folders are
C:\WINNT\ ) make sure you point the install to your
Windows system folder, if you donot trust this .EXE file I
created to make things simple then you can just change the
extention from .exe to .rar and use WinRAR to install
these drivers into YOUR windows folder.
 
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