W98 accessing an XP Home machine

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Hi,

Does the guest account need to be active for
a W98 machine to access a file/directory on
an XP Home machine?

thanks,
dave.....
 
"****** dave" said:
Hi,

Does the guest account need to be active for
a W98 machine to access a file/directory on
an XP Home machine?

thanks,
dave.....

The answer is "no" if you're asking whether to go to Control Panel |
User Accounts on XP and turn on the Guest account. That setting has
no effect on access to XP Home's files over a network. It only
determines whether you can log on locally as Guest at the Welcome
screen.

If you're asking something else, please forgive me for
misunderstanding and post a news group reply with details.
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"***** dave" <[email protected]> said:
Steve,

You got the just of it the first time. I am having a real difficult time
getting a Dell machine with XPH on it to "browse" my W98 network.
The error message I get is that the network path is not found when
I hit the WORKGROUP entry under the network tree. I have gone
to most of the networking web sites and done all the suggestions but
nothing has worked.
1. don't run network wizard
2. disable firewall
3. logon as admin type
4. use file and print sharing on all the computers
5. remove all but TCP/IP protocols
6. use netbios over TCP/IP
7. make sure the workgroup names are all the same - WORKGROUP
8. I made D: drive shared on the Dell machine and others can see it.

It feels like the master browser will not let the XPH machine traverse
the network info. When I reloaded from scratch, the main logo comes
up "OWNER". Even if I change it to something else, it reverts back
to OWNER in the logon screen.

Other W98 machines can see the XPH machine but the XPH machine
can't see the other machines.

any ideas?
thanks,
dave....

The master browser can't control the other computers' behavior, and
user names (OWNER vs. ADMINISTRATOR vs. whatever) aren't relevant in
networking W98 and XPH. Something else is causing the problem.

Run "ipconfig /all" on XPH and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should be
"Point-to-Point, but XP gets it wrong) that's the problem. It means
that the computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see the section on "NodeType" in this Microsoft Knowledge
Base article:

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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