networking win 98 and win2000

[K. Soze]

I dont know why I am having such problems with this one, but I cant share files between machines (one has win98, the other has win2000). I have heard that the win98 machine's computer name must be a user name on win2000. That didnt help. I am unable to access the other machine through network neighborhood. any advice?

 

[Magic30]

1. use a DHCP server or
2. give the machines static private IP addresses
3. put them in the same workgroup
4. make a user on the win 2000 machine that matches the login of the 98 PC

enable "File and print sharing"

 

[K. Soze]

1. i have the linksys router that uses DHCP.
3. they are both in the same workgroup.
4. i made a user that matched the 98 machine
i enabled file and print sharing

it still doesnt work. anything else i can do?

 

[Magic30]

Can you ping one PC from the other? This must work.

Right Click the network symbol in your explorer and try to search for the other PC. Sometimes this helps.

Another thing: let's say one PC has the name pc1 and a folder "download" shared, then try to access it by typing in your explorer of the second PC:

\\pc1\download

 

[K. Soze]

i can ping from one to the other, but cant seem to get them together on network neighborhood

 

[Rickr]

On the W2K machine, give full permissions to the "Guest" user. Also, try adding another common protocol, such as netbuei.

 

[Inosuke]

I think you will have to set up identical accounts on each machine in order to do this.

Also make sure:

1) You can ping loopback (your own adapter)

2) You can ping the other machine.

3) You have file and print sharing set.

4) you have set the physical drives you want to see set up as shared (through explorer). Otherwise you cant see em.

You can also go to command line in 2000 and type "net view" and it'll give ya a list of computers in that domain that are recognized from that machine. Net view is a helpful one to play with.

I'm assuming that you have tcp/ip set identically on each machine.

Also do you have any web-accelerators or fiewalls installed? These can play some havoc with lans as well.

Whew.
I have experienced a problem with all of the above in my own network.



Inosuke

The networking neophite