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win 98 / xp file sharing
Name: rinsitah Date: November 12, 2003 at 23:31:53 Pacific OS: Win98 se CPU/Ram: pIII 667MHz / 256meg ram
Comment:
running a network between win98 se and winxp pro. want to enable file sharing. win98 machine can see winxp and can access its shared files. winxp machine CANNOT see win98 machine.
file sharing is enabled on both machines... i can ping both machines from each other and that works fine. ICS is also running on win98 and xp can share the net off that fine too...
both machines are running in the same workgroup and there is a user profile in winxp with the same name as the win98 profile.
ive uninstalled/reinstalled the netowrk card on the xp machine, and still no work.
Name: rinsitah Date: November 13, 2003 at 00:01:30 Pacific
Reply:
sorted. needed to install netBEUI on XP, because its discontinued and not installed with XP.
Open the following folder in the Windows XP CD: ValueAdd\Msft\Net\Netbeui. Copy nbf.sys into the %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\directory. Copy netnbf.inf into the %SYSTEMROOT%\INF\ directory. Open network connection properties and click the "Install..." button to add the NetBEUI protocol.
fyi.
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Response Number 2
Name: hank Date: November 13, 2003 at 10:58:24 Pacific
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Thanks for that info Rinsitah! i'm sure it will come in handy.
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Response Number 3
Name: phb1976 Date: December 13, 2003 at 00:44:07 Pacific
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I have a similar problem, but my 98 machine can't see my xp machine. NetBEUI is installed on both, Sharing enabled on both. The xp machine can access and see normally the 98 machine???
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Response Number 4
Name: Mickey2337 Date: December 23, 2003 at 02:53:56 Pacific
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If you've got XP Professional, then I have the answer (after weeks of looking!). You need to create a non-admin user WITH A PASSWORD on the XP machine. Then create the same user WITH THE SAME PASSWORD on your 98 machine. Windows seems to use that to implictly log in to the XP machine (and vice-versa probably - not sure).
Hope that helps - it was so frustrating not to be able to do such a simple thing!
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