Home Network...one last step

[Karl Winters]

I finally have everything working...almost.

I have a home wifi network with an XP as the main and a Win98 laptop as the
wireless.

They both have Internet. The XP main see all three folders I have marked as
'shared' on the Win98 laptop. But the Win98 only sees the original 'shareddocs'
folder on the XP... it doesnt see two other folders I have marked as 'shared'.

Im guessing that there's still one last piece of configuration I need for the
Win98 to see the folders on the XP. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

I finally have everything working...almost.

I have a home wifi network with an XP as the main and a Win98 laptop as the
wireless.

They both have Internet. The XP main see all three folders I have marked as
'shared' on the Win98 laptop. But the Win98 only sees the original 'shareddocs'
folder on the XP... it doesnt see two other folders I have marked as 'shared'.

Im guessing that there's still one last piece of configuration I need for the
Win98 to see the folders on the XP. Any ideas? Thanks.

Karl,

There is quite likely one last piece of configuration that remains. Finding
that one last piece of configuration is usually the fun part.

Please list the setting changes you made from reading Jack's, and my, posts, so
we have an idea what to check next.

Are you running Simple File Sharing, or Advanced File Sharing (SFS disabled) on
the XP computer? Did you setup a common account on both computers, and are you
using that account (ie logging in under that account) when you start the Windows
98 computer?

What's the difference between "shareddocs" and your two other folders? Check
under folder properties for the two, and compare "Security" and "Sharing" tabs.

You might want to read the referential Microsoft white paper, that I provided a
link to in my last post:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en>
The answers are in there somewhere, though you may need a lot of patience to
find them.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Karl Winters]

Comments in-line:

Karl,

There is quite likely one last piece of configuration that remains. Finding
that one last piece of configuration is usually the fun part.

Please list the setting changes you made from reading Jack's, and my, posts,
so
we have an idea what to check next.

I made all the relevant changes reccomended.

Are you running Simple File Sharing, or Advanced File Sharing (SFS disabled)
on
the XP computer?

Simple File Sharing

Did you setup a common account on both computers, and are you

using that account (ie logging in under that account) when you start the
Windows
98 computer?

I have both set up so there is no logon box. They just bootup directly

What's the difference between "shareddocs" and your two other folders? Check
under folder properties for the two, and compare "Security" and "Sharing"
tabs.

I compared the boxes in all the folders, and the checkmarks are in the same
place. What I have done is created a new folder "My Downloads" as a first stop
for downloading things. I am trying to make that a shared folder for the rest of
the network.

You might want to read the referential Microsoft white paper, that I provided
a
link to in my last post:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en>
The answers are in there somewhere, though you may need a lot of patience to
find them.

Been through it, it appears Ive done everything.

 

[Karl Winters]

After following all the instructions, making all the changes, and resetting the
network connections more times than I can count........

The problem was that the network components (both XP & 98) will 'not' read a
shared folder that has more than 12 characters. In creating new folders I want
to be shared... "My Download Files" will not work and was invisible, "My
Downloads" will work and is totally accessable. If you need to share any
folders, existing or newly created, it must be 12 characters or less.

That's certainly one more for you tech guys.......

Thanks for all your help.
KW.

 

[Chuck]

After following all the instructions, making all the changes, and resetting the
network connections more times than I can count........

The problem was that the network components (both XP & 98) will 'not' read a
shared folder that has more than 12 characters. In creating new folders I want
to be shared... "My Download Files" will not work and was invisible, "My
Downloads" will work and is totally accessable. If you need to share any
folders, existing or newly created, it must be 12 characters or less.

That's certainly one more for you tech guys.......

Thanks for all your help.
KW.

Karl,

That's a setting I usually forget. Thanks for updating us.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.