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Networking Win XP and Win 98

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Name: Paul Barter
Date: May 31, 2002 at 06:16:24 Pacific
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I have a newtork of two PCs connected through a hub.

My new PC is running Win XP Home Edition and my old PC is running Win98 SR2.

In Win XP, everything seems to work fine, I can copy back and forward and print OK through the network.

In Win98, I can see the new PC in network neighbourhood, and the shared drives it contains, but I cannot connect to the XP drives or map them or print through the network. The only error messages I get are of the form "not enough storage is available to process the command" or "not enough memory is available. Quit some programs" or similar. I have tried closing every program down but to no effect.

Any ideas?

Paul


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Response Number 1
Name: XP DOC
Date: May 31, 2002 at 06:28:33 Pacific
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Have you shared your Drives and Printers on your XP machine?


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Name: xpadvisor
Date: May 31, 2002 at 09:39:07 Pacific
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Also will need to enable the guest account and turn off firewall on the WinXP computer.


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Name: chris
Date: June 1, 2002 at 11:46:52 Pacific
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Try using zonealarm 2.6 if it is due to firewall problems. I have it installed on my 2 comps (amd1800 xp and 300mhz 98se). Mine are connected via linksys router and ethernet connectors. Haven't any problems.


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Response Number 4
Name: dleigh
Date: July 8, 2002 at 03:40:41 Pacific
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Paul,
Did any of these do the trick? I'm in exactly the same boat.
Thanks!
dleigh


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Name: khf1979
Date: July 13, 2002 at 23:48:24 Pacific
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i have 2 platform ..my printer server is win 98 and my client is win xp ...i facing problem in print document ...how to print in the printer server(win98) in client(win xp)??


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Response Number 6
Name: Jim B
Date: July 18, 2002 at 10:06:48 Pacific
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I once fixed this problem, and wish I'd have kept the instructions.

What solved it was changing a registry key - actually, just deleting an entry. Has anyone else seen that advice? Please share details if so. Yes, it's doing that again.

(Server:XPhome; Ethernet; W98 + WXP additional machines cannot open dir's seen on network)


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Name: David Gossage
Date: July 24, 2002 at 22:14:39 Pacific
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Wow! I have the same problem. I do know that sharing IS enabled on C: drive. Also xp firewall is off. Zonealarm is off. I did read something somewhere about changing a value in the registry for this problem, but it was for win NT.
It was working at one time, however it is not now. I have lots of free memory available.
However, I can access the client (win98) computer from the server (xp). Which is the only way I can share files.
I can not open the shared folder on the xp machine by itself through the 'my network places' But I can from 'my computer'. Strange huh?


Someone help us!!


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