I am trying to hook up a XP machine with a peer to peer network of 98 machines. I have them all with unique adress, gateway, and the NetBEUI is inabled on the 98's. I can see them on the xp and see the xp on the 98's but I can't share anything. Can anyone help me? Is it the NetBEUI? Thanks, Regg

NetBEUI has to be on the XP box as well if you want to use it. Same Workgroup? On your 98 machine, is file and printer sharing turned on? If you right click a folder, is there a Sharing option, if not you haven't got it turned on. Sometimes you may have to turn it on,off,on a few times to get it to take with reboots in between.

I can't find the netBEUI on the XP machines. I was told that XP doesn't like that. I have placed the IP adresses on all the machines so do I even need the BEUI? Should I remove NetBEUI from the 98 machines? Also all devices are shared and I also have a machine set up with the Post Office on it for the inhouse mail.

I am having the same problem as you, Regg 65. E-mail me if you find a solution. :)

It would probally help if you did an ipconfig /all on both machines and posted it. Go to a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" without the "".

I'm assuming you're using XP Pro. If so, the issue is user authentication. For you to share your XP files, the users on the other computers have to log in as users that exist on your XP box. So, you'll have to set up user accounts on the XP box and then have your win98 users log into their computers using those usernames and passwords. It's a pain in the ass if there are a lot of computers on your network. If there are, you should consider setting up a domain controller and letting it be the central place you maintain user accounts. Rather than waste gobs of money on a windows server you should just use Linux (free) with Samba and set up Samba as a primary domain controller.

It is not recommended but, if you ever want to add NETBEUI to an XP machine you need to install it off the CD. I highly recommend sticking w/ the TCP/IP structure and, move from the 98 WS ASAP!