XP seeing Win98???

[Baileybbk]

I'm having a TOUGH time getting my XP Pro system to see my Win98 Machines.

All computers hooked up to switch.
All on same Workgroup.
TCP addresses through DHCP from ISP.
TCP & NetBEUI running on Win98 machines (pretty sure they use NetBEUI to share files/printers).
TCP & NetBIOS on TCP running on XP machine.
All firewalls are OFF.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[dawks]

Are your IP addresses from the ISP on the same subnet? I have a problem where my ISP gives me two IPs from completely different subnets. So if I were to use TCP/IP for local file sharing, I'd have to go out through my modem over their 'public' network, and back.

So I installed IPX/SPX on BOTH systems, and all is fine.

You already have NetBeui Installed on the 98 machines, so I would have suggested installing it on the XP machine also, but Microsoft 'removed' it from XP. They are trying to phase it out. I have heard its still there, but am not sure how to get it back.

Perhaps you could try IPX/SPX on both machines. I havent had any problems with it myself. (I think IPX is available on 98)..

 

[Joemonkey]

You might want to try making the WinXP machine the master browser. Search on google for it, it's a simple registry change