Hi Cindy, I don't like Microsoft's wizards at all. It's not hard to configure manually. Here's a tutorial http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp that's pretty good. It will show you exactly what to configure in both operating systems. Why don't you try to go through it and then report back to us about what happens.
Everybody is making good suggestions but it's sort haphazard. You need to go through it from scratch with a plan so that we can see what exactly how you have configured it. Ben -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cindy Pavey Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: PCWorks: Re: Networking question OK, here's what I've done. I ran the networking wizard on my XP with the workgroup named "Home". Then I made a networking disk and ran it on the 98 machine, again using the workgroup name "Home". I restarted the machines when it told me to and was able to see the 98 machine in my Network but unable to import or access any of the files and I have turned on sharing on both machines and selected the files and marked them to share (they have the little hand under them). Now however, I can not even see the 98 machine in my Network Places (or visa versa). I even tried resetting up the Network with new workgroup names. Again, the first day I could see it but not access it, now I can't even see it. I'm kind of at a loss. Thanks, Cindy Hi Cindy, This has been going on long enough that I don't have the original mails. You problem as I remember it is that you can access the internet from both your Win98 and WinXP computers but they can't see each other in network neighborhood. Is that correct? Have you assigned the same workgroup name to both computers? Could you review the things you have done to try to get the two computers to see each other? If I'm completely off base on this, let me know. You might as well leave the ip addresses alone at least until you confirm that everything else is configured correctly. Your router will have a thing called a DHCP server built into it that assigns IP addresses. Your computers will be set up to get an IP address automatically. If you access your router you will find a way to turn this feature on and off. The fact that you are able to access the internet means that feature is working. Ben Moore ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
