Setting up a Home Network Win98 to Win2K

[tearaway]

Hi,
It'd be great if I could get some help here. I have a Win2k box and a Win98 box both connected to a hub. The hub is connected to a cable modem (@Home) and both boxes have Internet access. Both boxes have assigned IP addresses and are on the same workgroup. Both have Client for Microsoft Networking installed and TCP/IP but neither can see the other. The Network Neighborhood for each box just has the "Entire Network" icon and cannot list the other machine, How can I 'get connacted?'

Thank you in advance for any assistance

Tom Schulte

[Junky]

Hi there,

If I understand correctly, you can both get on the internet? OK, I assume you can. So you need to make a setting. Right click on the Network Neighborhood icon, Properties, the File and Print Sharing. The top box has to be checked before you can be seen on the Network. Hope this helps.

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[tearaway]

Thanx, Junky, I feel I am further along, but not there yet. You are right, both are accessing the Internet. The Win2k Box did have File and Print Sharing, while the Win98 Box did not. I enabled it on Win98 and rebooted both machines. The Win98 then could see itself in the network neighborhood, but not the Win2k Machine. The Win2k machine still cannot see anything in its Entire Network. Note, I have shared both computer's C drives.

[Junky]

Hi,

Did you setup the TCP/IP for the LAN correctly? Group Name? Addresses? How about the Primary Network Login, that name the same?

Right click on a partition like C and make it "sharing", see if that makes a difference.

Head on over the www.linksys.com (http://www.linksys.com) and look over their instructions for setting up a LAN, they do a good job.

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[Tobmello]

may be a dumb answer here on my part but....have you checked the IPs and mask settings to ensure both machines are on the same subnet? Without a router between them I think in order for two machines to communicate they have to be on the same subnet. Can you ping either machine from the other?

[BigStu]

Have you specified what folders or drives to share? If not, right click on whatever you want to share, click sharing, and check shared as.

BigStu

[tearaway]

I have shared the C drives of both machines. I can ping both machines from each other. Perhaps it is as suggested, the IP Addresses place each box on a separate subnet. Maybe that is the problem. Is this insurmountable?