Why can't I see a computer on my network?

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There are known issues in accessing Win 98 computers with WinXP over a
network... it takes some playing around with it to get it to work.. It
will work, but takes a few changes..
 
I'm running win98 and XP and this tutorial explained setting up a mixed
network over the internet, which I decided I didn't want to do..
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp
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Thanks. That tutorial helped a lot. There was a problem with the
workgroup name. In one place it was set to MSHOME, but in another
place it was WORKGROUP. So now I can see the other computer, but
I'm still having problems accessing the drives. I'll have to look
closer. I know I set them up to be shared.
 
workgroup name. In one place it was set to MSHOME, but in another
place it was WORKGROUP. So now I can see the other computer, but
I'm still having problems accessing the drives. I'll have to look
closer. I know I set them up to be shared.
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Still can't access the drives and I know the sharing is set up
correctly, since I can access the drives on computer B from the
laptop. So what other XP oddities to I have to look for?
 
Check to see what network connections exist on both machines. I once aquired
an unwanted bridge that seemed to stop everything working.
 
Check to see what network connections exist on both machines. I once aquired
an unwanted bridge that seemed to stop everything working.
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Meaning? On the XP machine I have two connection defined in my Network
Connections:

Local Area Network - which appears to be the active one.
1394 connection - I honestly cannot figure out what this one is. I
have only one ethernet card that is attached to my cable modem.
Checking my devies - this is identified as the bus controller.

The machine with Windows 98 has four connections defined:

AOL
AOL Dial Up
PPP
Wireless - the one that I'm using. The older ethernet card isn't
attached to anything?

How do I check for an unwanted bridge?
 
The most common problem "seeing" win98 and xp machines on the same
peer network is due to XP wanting to be the "Browse Master".

If you turn off the browse master on the xp box, things get much
better.

Good Luck

Douglas Tatelman
www.pickteam.com
 
The most common problem "seeing" win98 and xp machines on the same
peer network is due to XP wanting to be the "Browse Master".

If you turn off the browse master on the xp box, things get much
better.

Good Luck

Douglas Tatelman
www.pickteam.com
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Can you clue me in to what a Browse Master is and how I control it?
Search for "browse master" turned up zero results and search for
"browse" is too general.
 
If you are using a firewall, check to see that the PC's are passing thru.
Turn them off to test. In zone alarm, you need to add the IP addresses to
the "trusted zone" setting.
 
If you are using a firewall, check to see that the PC's are passing thru.
Turn them off to test. In zone alarm, you need to add the IP addresses to
the "trusted zone" setting.
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The PCs must be passing through is they can see the interenet. And I
use Norton Internet Security, which picks up the IP address of the
router 192.168.1.0 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and plces it in the
trusted zone.
 
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