Hi -
I'm a novice at networking - in fact I'm just putting my first one
together, and it almost works.
I've a Dell laptop running Winxp, networked to an old laptop running
Win98. The Dell has an Intel 802.11 card in it, the old laptop a new
Edimax USB 802.11 card.
In between there is a Netgear modem/wireless router. I'm just getting
one bit at a time going before I connect to the net, so no internet
connection yet.
Now - the Dell can 'see' the old laptop - no problem. I can copy files
*to it and from it* from the Dell. But the old laptop can't see the
Dell. When I click on 'entire network' in network neighbourhood, I get
an error message saying the network is unavailable, or it just shows an
empty window. No way it will find the Dell.
And no, I haven't got a firewall running between the two.
How come the asymmetry? It works find in one direction. It's difficult
to set permissions on the XP machine to allow sharing from the 98
machine, because any attempt to mention an object on the 98 machine gets
an 'object not found in XP.
Any ideas?
TIA
Tony
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