Sadly my network went.....

[Victoria Castleberry]

For a long time I have had a nice simple wireless network with XP Home on
the main box and Win98 on my laptop.
Upgraded to 98SE on the laptop and have lost my local network to share
files/printer to the XP box.

Wireless web TCP/IP works fine.
Neither the XP box or the 98SE box can "see" the other computer as part of
the Network Neighborhood.
All network settings look normal, workgroups check out.

So I then brought in my other laptop with 98SE that works fine at another
location to share files with a XP Home box.
Guess what - it did not see this XP box to share files, etc.

Summary, have two laptops under 98SE that cannot share with THIS XP box.
Been through the settings many times, re-ran Setup a Home Network, re-did
the Netsetup on the laptops.
Turned off the XP box firewall (Norton Personal Firewall)... still no
connection.

Any ideas?
Regards,
Frank

 

[robert]

www.pctechnicians.ca
Guides
workgroup troubleshooting guide
for a few suggestions

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

For a long time I have had a nice simple wireless network with XP Home on
the main box and Win98 on my laptop.
Upgraded to 98SE on the laptop and have lost my local network to share
files/printer to the XP box.

Wireless web TCP/IP works fine.
Neither the XP box or the 98SE box can "see" the other computer as part of
the Network Neighborhood.
All network settings look normal, workgroups check out.

So I then brought in my other laptop with 98SE that works fine at another
location to share files with a XP Home box.
Guess what - it did not see this XP box to share files, etc.

Summary, have two laptops under 98SE that cannot share with THIS XP box.
Been through the settings many times, re-ran Setup a Home Network, re-did
the Netsetup on the laptops.
Turned off the XP box firewall (Norton Personal Firewall)... still no
connection.

Any ideas?
Regards,
Frank

Don't just turn off the firewall -- un-install it, and don't
re-install it until everything else is working. That's the only way
to know whether the firewall is causing the network problems. I've
seen several cases where Norton Personal Firewall did exactly that.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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