I have a Win98SE computer on a wireless network with a WinXPSP2 computer. The router and cable modem and printers are all attatched to the Win XPSP2 computer. I just attached a HP Laserjet 1320 printer to the XP machine. When I tried to install the HP Laserjet 1320 as a new network printer on...

My win98(se) machine has connected to RCN's dial up service for years with no problem. During this time, my configuration has not changed. In the past few months, my connection has gotten slower and slower and finally got so slow that most web and email connections are timed out or the servers...

Hello, I have an old WIN 98 PC that am using to as a "server" for our office "In and Out" board. I don't know if the processor is dying or the hard drive is sticking but have found that if I restart it once a day it seems to work fine. I have found DOS command (runonce.exe -q) that will...

I need to network my laptop to my desktop so the laptop sees a virtual drive letter that's actually a directory on the desktop. The laptop is an older PIII with Serial, parallel, USB 1.1 - no ethernet. Windows has "direct cable connection" for serial/parallel, but Mircrosoft says "Before you can...

I need to set up a logical drive on my computer that my laptop can see via the internet. The computer is running Windows XP Pro, and the laptop is running Windows 98SE. Can Windows do this, or is there freeware to do this? (I can't network the computers directly without more hardware, and I don't...

In Windows XP, an Network icon is displayed in the Notification Area (systray). I have been searching for a week how to do this in Win98, hoping to find that elusive tick-box that says "show icon in taskbar..." without success. Appreciate any input. Thanks -- Rgds Poltonis

I use the wizard to set up a network but then it want to create a disk to set up the other computers on the network, however it says I have no removeable media. I don't have a floppy but I do have a DVDRW however it says I don't have anything so it won't do it. I don't have an XP installation disk...

I'm having problems networking a win98 desktop with two XP-Pro machines that use simple file sharing (for which I will post another query). In the mean time I entered several user names when using Client For Microsoft Networking because I thought I had to have the same user and passwords on the...

Hi I've just spent the best part of a day on this and not solved it, what have I missed? (I'm an Internet software developer, but networks aren't my everyday thing). I've a Windows 98 machine connected by cable to a Linksys WAG54G 4 port router with wireless 802.11g and inbuilt ADSL/broadband...

The 80 GB first drive that came with the computer is Fat 32. I'm assuming the second drive will format (from dos) with just one partion? Am I wrong? I have realize NTFS is better, but I was worrying that it wouldn't work with all the other XP / win98 systems on our network that are all Fat 32....

Hi, I am running a win XP SP2 and win98 machine. The XP is wired to the router (DLINK DI 525) and the win98 has a wireless card. I ran the Win XP Network Wizard on the win 98 machine, and the file sharing was working fine. But then it stopped working on the 98 machine. The XP can still see the...

I have been trying to help a senior citizen friend living in a basement apt. get a computer he was given, working on the internet. So far no success. Here's the situation: Computer is some sort of Packard Bell PII Win98SE machine with video card, sound card and modem. Never had a NIC before, but...

To: alt.windows98,microsoft.p I need to network my laptop to my desktop so the laptop sees a virtual drive letter that's actually a directory on the desktop. The laptop is an older PIII with Serial, parallel, USB 1.1 - no ethernet. Windows has "direct cable connection" for serial/parallel, but...

Hi all, I have a Linksys WPC11v3 running 128-bit WEP successfully under 98SE .... but I'm unhappy with the way it works. The card works in plain mode as configured by Windows, but in order to enable WEP I have to run the Linksys utility program "wpc11cfg.exe" whenever the hardware is...

I'm working in a mixed mode workgroup environment where my Windows 98 SE machine is providing two main resources for my Windows XP professional machine. They a A shared folder and a shared printer. I can access the shared folder on the Windows 98 machine over the LAN from my XP laptop but I...

Hello I hope someone can help me. I am putting together a small home network using a router and Ethernet adapters. It hasn't started too well. Right now I have only two computer on the network, one using Win98 and the other WinXp SP2. Both access the internet OK through the router and the...

In my "Network connection on Win98SE machine keeps failing" thread, one of the things I reported is the use on my Win98SE machine of both TCP/IP and NETBEUI (wired network to a WinXP machine and the Internet via a 2wire gateway connected to Telus DSL). I've run across a couple of recommendations...

To: alt.windows98,microsoft.p I need to set up a logical drive on my computer that my laptop can see via the internet. The computer is running Windows XP Pro, and the laptop is running Windows 98SE. Can Windows do this, or is there freeware to do this? (I can't network the computers directly...

The problem is that the 1st pc, needs to connect to a mapped network drive via a Belkin wireless Access Point on a 2nd pc. However at the time of this connection the wireless network is not yet active. Both pc's are using Win98SE with a Belkin wireless PCI card on PC1. Any advice on how to...

Is this an appropriate group for asking why, when the dial up procedure is successful, my internet apps don't communicate with the internet? (The same true of broadband, via my router). This has happened after doing partition manipulations of my hard disk, in which there was a change of partition...