Win XP Pro and Win 98

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My boss bought a portable this last week with Win XP Pro
on it. When we first jacked it into the Win 98 network at
work everything worked fine. It found all of the network
shares. I set it up to use his wireless connection at his
house and since then it has not found the network shares
at work.

Work is a Win 98 peer-to-peer network with no wireless
capabilities.

Home is a Win XP Home desktop with a wireless access point.

A secondary problem is that the portable does not have a
floppy drive and the Network Setup Wizard can't seem to
find the CD burner.

Any suggestions?
 
can you ping each other by ip? if yes, can you ping by name? if not, you
have name resolution issue. try to enable the netbios over tcp/ip on xp. or
post back with ipconfig /all.

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I can not ping with IP or name. I have enabled netbios
over tcp/ip and same result. I did not specify a WINS
server. Results of ipconfig /all below.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DAVEPORTABLE
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : National
Semiconductor Corp. DP83815 /816 10/100 MacPhyter PCI
Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0B-CD-E8-BA-
2A
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.104
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 216.47.224.66
216.47.224.68
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, August
29, 2003 1:47:42
PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday,
August 30, 2003
1:47:42 PM
 
we need more information to help. what's the connection 2? compare all
computers' ipconfig.

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