Windows XP client unable to connect to Windows 98 share

[Bill Edwards]

I have a small network of mismatched Windows 95/98
machines and one XP Home machine. All the 95/98 machines
can seeeach other and see the XP machine. The XP
machine, however, can see the 95's and 98's, except it
can't see one particular 98 machine that just HAPPENS to
be the "server" for the rest of the network.

I've tried the network troubleshooter, etc. This is a
REAL problem as we're not quite ready to upgrade everyone
to XP yet because of an oddball program everyone needs to
be able to access (the data for which is on the machine
the XP box can't see!).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have a small network of mismatched Windows 95/98
machines and one XP Home machine. All the 95/98 machines
can seeeach other and see the XP machine. The XP
machine, however, can see the 95's and 98's, except it
can't see one particular 98 machine that just HAPPENS to
be the "server" for the rest of the network.

Bill,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Krasimir Georgiev]

I have similar problem. The XP machine cannot connect to 98se from "Entire
network", but when I search computer by name or IP address, all is OK,