"Jim Matthews" said:
On our small office (5 PC's) one of the users upgraded his W98 laptop to XP
Home.
Now he can no longer connect via a network share to another desktop which is
running W98.
Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled on both.
They can ping each other and they show up in the "Network Neighborhood" and
"My Network Places"
File and Print Sharing is enabled on both.
The new XP Home laptop can access the Internet - it just can't see the
shares on the other machine.
Any ideas ?
TIA
JM
Use only one protocol for File and Printer Sharing. If the network
needs more than one protocol, unbind File and Printer Sharing from all
but one of them. Details here:
Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm
Double-check the NetBIOS over TCP/IP setting on XP:
1. Open the Network Connections folder.
2. Right click the local area network connection and click Properties.
3. Double click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
4. Click Advanced.
5. Click WINS.
6. Click the Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP button. The "Default" setting
doesn't always work.
Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the beginning
of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should actually be
"Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the computer only
uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a peer-to-peer network
for NetBIOS name resolution.
If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:
HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters
and delete these values if they're present:
NodeType
DhcpNodeType
Reboot, then try network access again.
If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".
For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177
TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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