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I have a Win98SE machine connected to an XP Home SP1 machine. They were 1st
networked in March of 2004 and worked happily together for over a year,
sharing an internet connection and a printer connected to the the XP machine
and sharing all files and folders. Neither required a password on bootup.
That happy circumstance ended in June of this year when the hard drive
crashed on my XP machine. After installing a new HDD and reinstalling XP, I
tried to restore the network. The XP machine sees the 98 machine just fine,
has access to files, etc. The 98 machine cannot get access to the XP
machine. It always tells me I need a Network password and says " Resource:
\\computername\IPC$". I also cannot use the printer. That box says
"Resource: \\computername\printername".
Each computer can ping the other by IP address and by name. I can see the
network from the 98 machine but cannot access the XP machine. The hardware
is fine and works well. The problem, I've been told elsewhere, is that the
XP won't give permission to the 98 for access. I can't find figure out how
to change this, and the advice I get everywhere doesn't work.
Hope somebody can help.
networked in March of 2004 and worked happily together for over a year,
sharing an internet connection and a printer connected to the the XP machine
and sharing all files and folders. Neither required a password on bootup.
That happy circumstance ended in June of this year when the hard drive
crashed on my XP machine. After installing a new HDD and reinstalling XP, I
tried to restore the network. The XP machine sees the 98 machine just fine,
has access to files, etc. The 98 machine cannot get access to the XP
machine. It always tells me I need a Network password and says " Resource:
\\computername\IPC$". I also cannot use the printer. That box says
"Resource: \\computername\printername".
Each computer can ping the other by IP address and by name. I can see the
network from the 98 machine but cannot access the XP machine. The hardware
is fine and works well. The problem, I've been told elsewhere, is that the
XP won't give permission to the 98 for access. I can't find figure out how
to change this, and the advice I get everywhere doesn't work.
Hope somebody can help.