Piggy backing on David's excellent response:

1. If you are running a firewall, you might want to consider uninstalling it
until all pc's are configured and seeing each other. Firewalls can be
insidious in stopping network traffic.

2. Although not described, I assume you've configured the new pc to be in
the same workgroup?

3. You're using client for M/S networks?

4. You've selected the gateway option if you used the wizard?

5. Sometimes, you might want to change the user interface to ensure each pc
contains the same user name and password (optional).

6. I agree about Netbeui. You should be able to get the network going with
TCP/IP only. I would uninstall it until things are working.

Good luck. Report back if you don't get it working.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Gillett
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Networking XP with 98


1.  The networking stuff in XP has a way to generate an update diskette for
    older systems, especially 98, to bring them up to where they can talk
    to XP.  I don't see where you've run that, so I suspect you haven't.

2.  XP seems to like, by default, to enable "Simple File Sharing".  I don't
    know what's so simple about it; a crucial step in getting it to play
    nice with anything else is to turn this "feature" OFF.

3.  Although installing NetBEUI might appear to solve the immediate problem,
    I suspect it will just paper over deeper issues that will come back to
    haunt you later.  I recommend that you get TCP/IP working instead.

4.  Oh yeah -- XP comes with a firewall that seems to be lax in some areas,
    and draconian in others.  While I recommend a well-configured firewall
    to anyone going on line, it shouldn't necessarily be the one Microsoft
    gives you -- and making sure that one is turned off may be helpful in
    this case.

David Gillett

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