Networking and Sharing

[Guest]

I am trying to set up a wireless home network with a laptop running XP and a desktop running 98. The wireless works great, but I cannot get the two PCs to network or share a printer that is on the desktop machine. The network setup wizard gets me to a point to make a network setup disk for the Win 98 machine, but I dont have a floppy drive to write to. Can I burn the files to a CD ? Any tips on how to solve these issues is appreciated Thanks in advance

 

[Kent_Diego]

great, but I cannot get the two PCs to network or share a printer that is
on the desktop machine. The network setup >wizard gets me to a point to
make a network setup disk for the Win 98 machine, but I dont have a floppy
drive to write >to. Can I burn the files to a CD ? Any tips on how to
solve these issues is appreciated Thanks in advance

Those darned wizards! That network setup disk is for ICS, Internet
Connection Sharing, something you do not want as you have as (I assume) you
have a wireless router to share connection. One quick way to bypass all the
wizard crap is make a folder on WinXP machine, like C:\Public, then enable
sharing to network. Be sure both machines are in same workgroup. Your Win98
machine should see \Public directory. If Print Sharing is enabled on Win98
(and printer connected to) and printer properties set to share, the WinXP
machine should see the network printer. Look here for more help:
http://www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

-Kent

 

[Guest]

Kent:

Take your XP disk to the Win 98 box and swhen its menu comes up, select "PERFORM ADDITIONAL TASKS", then select "SET UP A HOME OR SMALL OFFICE NETWORK". Should do it for you.

 

[Guest]

My new machine has no XP disks with it, what should I do then?

 

[Kenneth J. Harris]

Did you try posting in the microsoft public windows 98 networking
newsgoup? Lots of helpful posts there about both 98 and XP networking.

Ken