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Hey

Im trying to network 2 computers together via a cross-over cable.

One computer has XP Pro and the other one has 98SE. I installed the NICs and both work fine.

The computer with XP Pro is connected to the internet through a USB modem.

Heres what I did:

Connected the computers with the cable.

Configured the XP Pro machine with the networking wizard so its the host and other computers connect to the internet through it.

I made the disk and installed it on the 98SE machine.

Heres where the problem is: The XP Pro machine can see the 98SE machine through the workgroup window but it cannot access any of the files on the 98SE machine. The other problem is that the 98SE machine cant see the XP Pro machine and because of that it cant access the internet as-well.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.. :)

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ok

windows xp and windows 98 use a diffrent stype of file shareing

wat you need to do is you need to create a user on your xp machine and then login on the 98 machine witht he same user and password as it is on the xp machine

and 2 share th net

make sure u have ics running then go to

your network card and eirther specify an ip

or just leave it for dhcp

hope this helps

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have you set the files you want to share on the 98 machine? ive seen quite a lot of people try to network and never sharing anything so obviously nothing appears when they browse the pc.

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Ok, I got the network to work and we even got some gta2 action going on but the 98 machine still cant access the internet.

I tried everything and then I found out that it wasnt 98SE but its 98 (first edition). Does that matter?

Anyone know how to make the net connection work?

Thanks

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The shares are fine, thats not my problem.  The problem is that I cant connect to the net through the 98 machine.

I was having exactly the same problem as you. I solved it by doing the following on the Windows 98SE machine:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network > Configuration > *select appropraite network component* > Properties > WINS Configuration > Use DHCP for WINS Resolution

If it is already set to that, or that does not fix the problem, trying pinging, say, www.google.com. Does that work?

Then try pinging an IP address. Google's is 216.239.59.99 - does that work?

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