Win98-XP - Pings work, XP can't see 98

[Tony]

I have a Win 98 machine and an XP machine on a gateway
router. Network setup wizard was run on each. Each
machine can ping the other (including name). 98 machine
has a Norton firewall disabled, XP machine has ICF
disabled. Both machines have a workgroup name. I can
browse shared files on the XP machine from the 98
machine. XP machine can ping 98 machine by name on
command prompt, but the machine does not appear in
workgroup window. What next?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have a Win 98 machine and an XP machine on a gateway
router. Network setup wizard was run on each. Each
machine can ping the other (including name). 98 machine
has a Norton firewall disabled, XP machine has ICF
disabled. Both machines have a workgroup name. I can
browse shared files on the XP machine from the 98
machine. XP machine can ping 98 machine by name on
command prompt, but the machine does not appear in
workgroup window. What next?

Tony,

it can take some time until the other computer appears in the
computer browser.

Apart from that, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Still not having any luck. I can ping the Win98 by it's host name from the command prompt, but if I do a "search for computer on the network" using host name or IP, I get nothing. I have Norton firewall on Win 98 disabled. I ran network setup wizard on both machines. Any further help appreciated...

thanks.

----- Hans-Georg Michna wrote: -----

I have a Win 98 machine and an XP machine on a gateway
router. Network setup wizard was run on each. Each
machine can ping the other (including name). 98 machine
has a Norton firewall disabled, XP machine has ICF
disabled. Both machines have a workgroup name. I can
browse shared files on the XP machine from the 98
machine. XP machine can ping 98 machine by name on
command prompt, but the machine does not appear in
workgroup window. What next?

Tony,

it can take some time until the other computer appears in the
computer browser.

Apart from that, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Still not having any luck. I can ping the Win98 by it's host name from the command prompt, but if I do a "search for computer on the network" using host name or IP, I get nothing. I have Norton firewall on Win 98 disabled. I ran network setup wizard on both machines. Any further help appreciated...

Tony,

please have another good look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm. Most likely it contains
the solution. My first guess after your description above would
be that NetBEUI over TCP/IP is disabled, but that's also
described in there.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Hans-Georg

Thanks for the tip - it wasn't exactly the problem, but lead me to the solution

I used to have my 98 machine connected directly to the internet. At some time, I must have disabled the binding of file sharing to TCP/IP configured on my Win 98 NIC (client was checked, but file sharing binding was unchecked). So, even though I enabled sharing and it showed the icons for shared folders, the binding was broken in the network protocol configuration

I'm really surprised that the network wizard run on the Win 98 machine would not have found that..

Anyway, it's working now - thanks for your help

tony

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Thanks for the tip - it wasn't exactly the problem, but lead me to the solution!

I used to have my 98 machine connected directly to the internet. At some time, I must have disabled the binding of file sharing to TCP/IP configured on my Win 98 NIC (client was checked, but file sharing binding was unchecked). So, even though I enabled sharing and it showed the icons for shared folders, the binding was broken in the network protocol configuration.

I'm really surprised that the network wizard run on the Win 98 machine would not have found that...

Tony,

yes, I agree. That's a defect in the wizard.

But then Windows 98 is oldish now, and support peters out.

Anyway, it's working now - thanks for your help!

Glad to have helped.

Merry Christmas---Hans-Georg