Dial-up server in XP Professional?

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to set up the equivalence of a dial-up server running win98 in XP professional

Here is the situation: in the old set up, at location A, I have two computers 1 & 2, running win98 connecting together with a coax cable, peer-to-peer network. Computer 1 set up as a host & dial-up server with a 56K modem / phone line connection. At location Home, I set up my computer to dial-in to the location A, computer 1 to transfer files between these two computers without any problem.
Now I’ve just purchased three computers from Dell trying to replace the old set up, but the difference is the computers are now running XP professional, the two computers at location A are connected together with a SMC wireless cable/DSL router. The network is running fine, I just have a problem to dial in from my home computer via a 56k modem. The host computer seems doing its job verifying my user name & password, but when it comes to negotiate a network protocol, I receive the following error message: “Checking network protocol connection TCP/IP CP report error 733: A connection to the remote computer could not be completed. You might need to adjust the protocols on this computerâ€. I have already tried to adjust so many different variables with no success. Does anyone out there have this kind of knowledge

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

You can setup an Incoming Connection in XP... See
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prcg_cnd_lmno.asp
for a bit more information. Also, searching Help & Support for
incoming connections will give you guidance on how to configure for
incoming connections.

Also note that if you are trying to connect to a windows 98 server,
you must configure that machine to use either IPX or TCP/IP as the
network protocol. Windows XP no longer supports using NetBEUI over a
RAS connection (Windows 98 does this by default)...

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[Bill Sanderson]

This should be workable--check out the resources Jeffrey noted--although you
may be ahead of us already.

As a separate consideration, since you've got a broadband DSL connection,
have you considered a VPN connection to transfer the files, rather than the
dialup?

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much for Jeffrey & Bill for your advice. Nevertheless, I think I need to clarify my problem a bit more
I just want to connect from one XP professional machine to another xp professional machine via 56K modem on both sides; no ISP, no DSL, just with the phone line, to transfer files. I'm pretty familiar with the imcoming connections set up, but no matter what I do, nothing works. Do I need to set up the port 3389 for this connection

Patrick

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Once you have incoming connections setup, then connect from the other
machine to yours over dialup, you can access the network resources by
using network drive/printer shares... Depending on how you have your
machine setup, the methodology on setting up File and Print Sharing
varies, but in general, you can right click on a drive or folder, then
enable sharing.. You would then access this share on the other
machine using the path \\computername\share or \\ipaddress\share.

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[Guest]

Hello Jeffrey

As I've mentioned in my original post, the host computer seems doing its job verifying my user name & password, but when it comes to negotiate a network protocol, I receive the following error message: “Checking network protocol connection TCP/IP CP report error 733: A connection to the remote computer could not be completed. You might need to adjust the protocols on this computerâ€.

Are there any important variables or parameter I need to set on both the host machine and the client in order to make this work? Do I need to open the port for 3389? I would think that port 3389 is for the remote desktop

Patrick

----- Jeffrey Randow (MVP) wrote: ----

Once you have incoming connections setup, then connect from the othe
machine to yours over dialup, you can access the network resources b
using network drive/printer shares... Depending on how you have you
machine setup, the methodology on setting up File and Print Sharin
varies, but in general, you can right click on a drive or folder, the
enable sharing.. You would then access this share on the othe
machine using the path \\computername\share or \\ipaddress\share

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Net. & Smart Display MVP
(e-mail address removed)

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of all USENET users. Messages sent via email may or may no
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:31:07 -0800, "ptwwu

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If you open help and support and type in "error 733" in the search box and
hit the green button, there's a reference for these messages:

733

The connection could not be completed because your computer and the remote
computer could not negotiate PPP control protocols. Try the following:

Make sure that all network components necessary for the connection are
installed and configured for the connection type. For more information, see
To add a network component and To configure a connection.

Enable or disable multi-link negotiation for the connection. To configure
multi-link, open the Network Connections folder, right-click the icon for
the connection, click Properties, click the Networking tab, and click
Settings.


My gut feeling is that this isn't gonna help, though! Have you tried this
connection in both directions? Does it work one way and not the other?
Compare the configurations at both ends.