please help with my 2 computer networking.

[Guest]

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...

I have a new 2400 Dell that arrived today with XP PRO..I cat 5'ed it to the
new DLink 624 wireless router..wicked fast internet...everything is fine there

On my older Gateway I installed a DLink wireless pci card....I worked out
the bugs with that and have great internet speed with that..

Now I am on my networking..I have ran the network wizard on the new XP pro
and then used that disk, as instructed, on the Win 98SE older computer and
set up the network wizard as instructed....It appears both networks were
setup, with the same name, but I don't know how to access information off of
each others computer...generally you go into network places and you will find
your network. I should be able to access the harddrive from each computer on
the othe computer...
There is nothing in network places besides each computer showing it's own
computer name..

Any ideas? Do I need some additional hardware to hook these two together?

CaptainKrunch

 

[Lance]

I think you have to tell the computers which folders they want to share.
This article shows how to enable file sharing, part 8 covers printer
sharing:

How to Set Up a Small Network with Windows XP Home Edition (PART 7)
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 814004
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814004&Product=winxp>

Lance
*****

CaptainKrunch thought carefully and wrote on 8/31/2004 5:09 PM:

 

[Andrew Ward]

If you check the news items in this group - if you have
SP2, then you will probably find it almost impossible to
connect the two on a network. Those of us who had working
home networks no longer have networks after installation
of SP2.

 

[Lance]

Andrew Ward thought carefully and wrote on 8/31/2004 9:49 PM:

If you check the news items in this group - if you have SP2, then you
will probably find it almost impossible to connect the two on a
network. Those of us who had working home networks no longer have
networks after installation of SP2.

This is what I'm having trouble understanding. I had established a
working network before SP2 - it was a lot of trouble but I got it
working very well. I updated all four computers to SP2 without a single
hiccup. My network is operating exactly as before.

There's some tiny, subtle thing about SP2 that is driving everyone else
buggers.

Lance
*****

 

[Chuck]

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...

I have a new 2400 Dell that arrived today with XP PRO..I cat 5'ed it to the
new DLink 624 wireless router..wicked fast internet...everything is fine there

On my older Gateway I installed a DLink wireless pci card....I worked out
the bugs with that and have great internet speed with that..

Now I am on my networking..I have ran the network wizard on the new XP pro
and then used that disk, as instructed, on the Win 98SE older computer and
set up the network wizard as instructed....It appears both networks were
setup, with the same name, but I don't know how to access information off of
each others computer...generally you go into network places and you will find
your network. I should be able to access the harddrive from each computer on
the othe computer...
There is nothing in network places besides each computer showing it's own
computer name..

Any ideas? Do I need some additional hardware to hook these two together?

CaptainKrunch

CK,

There are many things you have to do to get a working network. Getting a
working network between Win 98 and Win XP is a little more complicated, but
still doable.

First verify that you have connectivity. If the two computers can both connect
to the internet, you have half the work done.

Provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
Identify operating system (by name and version) with each ipconfig listing.

Are you running both Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and Printer Sharing
for Microsoft Networks (Local Area Connection - Properties), on each computer?
Do you have shares setup on each?

Are you running NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (Local Area Connection - Properties - TCP/IP
- Properties - Advanced - WINS) on each computer?

From each computer, test shares visibility (use actual name / address of each
computer as appropriate):
Start - Run then:
1) \\ThisComputerByName
2) \\ThisComputerByIPAddress
3) \\OtherComputerByName
4) \\OtherComputerByIPAddress
Report visibility of shares / exact error displayed in each test (8 tests
total).

Once you can see shares on each computer from the other, then you have to setup
permissions.

Everything you need to know about file sharing, between all different versions
of Windows:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en>

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

If you check the news items in this group - if you have
SP2, then you will probably find it almost impossible to
connect the two on a network. Those of us who had working
home networks no longer have networks after installation
of SP2.

Adrew,

it is a bit difficult to make general statistics from the
newsgroup messages here. The reason is that there may be many
users who have no problem and therefore don't post any messages
here.

My own experience from my own network and from networks in my
vicinity also doesn't bear this out---I upgraded 5 computers to
Service Pack 2 and haven't had a single problem.

So it is conceivable that the problem messages in this newsgroup
come from a small minority of users.

By the way, have you had a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm recently? The article has
grown and now includes a fair number of possible problems with
solutions and workarounds. If a bet could be supervised, I would
now bet that the solution to your problem is in there too.

Hans-Georg