XP & 98 networked

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I have a XP machine and a 98 machine on the same network
in the same workgroup - both access the web and their
respective email site fine..... but I can't share
printers or files... HP says the NT permissions on the XP
machine make sharing impossible... surely there's a way..
other than replacing the XP operating system with a more
user friendly alternative
 
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Help - I have a XP machine and a 98 machine on the same network
in the same workgroup - both access the web and their
respective email site fine..... but I can't share
printers or files... HP says the NT permissions on the XP
machine make sharing impossible... surely there's a way..
other than replacing the XP operating system with a more
user friendly alternative
.
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I just got this same config to work after two days of
troubleshooting. There is a lot of info on this forum
regarding this issue and I think I've tried them all!

Anyway - here's how I got it to work...

First of all - doing this in XP - the OS will ask you to
create a 'network setup disk' to take over to the 98 PC
to load. My problem was - the XP machine was a laptop
without a floppy drive. XP would NOT let me copy the
needed files anyway else.

So this is a manual way of getting this to work.

The main ingredient...

IPX/SPX with NetBios must be added as a protocol on both
the XP and Win98 machine.

The rest of the setup is standard such as setting up the
same 'workgroup' name on both machines.

After doing that - everything worked including the
ability to print to a printer attached to the WIN98
machine.

Hope this works...
 
It may be patently wrong, but it also worked for me.
After reading a number of posts about people not being
able to connect with XP Home of late, I decided to give
it a try. Nothing like good ol' IPX/SPX to get Windows
to talk again.

Here's to hoping that MS "fixes" their last fix and we
can once again go to straight IP.

Thanks for the trick, Del. Thinking outside the box...

Dan
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This is patently wrong. It may be a way that works, but it is
not necessary, except in some special cases.

Please have a look at
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http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm for
 
Dan said:
It may be patently wrong, but it also worked for me.
After reading a number of posts about people not being
able to connect with XP Home of late, I decided to give
it a try. Nothing like good ol' IPX/SPX to get Windows
to talk again.

Here's to hoping that MS "fixes" their last fix and we
can once again go to straight IP.
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Dan,

I'm not saying it does not work. I'm only saying that it is
usually not needed and that it generally causes more problems
than it solves.

Everybody I know, including myself, uses TCP/IP only. The
required information is in
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm and at other places.

Hans-Georg
 
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