Hello all. On a 98SE machine I am trying to access a network printer that is hooked up to an XP machine. File and printer sharing is enabled, of course. Both PCs are on the MSHOME network. I can see both machines from the other one, and can access shared folders both ways. I have installed the...

Hi I once had a home network that involved several computers connected to an Ethernet LAN. One computer runs Windows 98 SE and is the only one that connects directly to the internet. I had Windows Internet Connection Sharing set up on that computer so that the other computers (with a variety of...

I was using the Nortel Contivity VPN with DUN, and it brought up a Microsoft Network login screen after the VPN connection was established. Now I am using Nortel with DSL. Is there anyway to trigger a network login screen when establishing the connection to the VPN? Can you make a dummy DUN...

Hi all, first of all, I really think, that this is a Win98 and not a WinXP problem. I had a fine working mini-network with the following configuration: INTERNET | Win98-PC --- (cable) --- ROUTER ··· (wireless) ··· WinXPhome-Notebook |

I have a Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6) that has a client application running on it that is accessed by terminals with windows 98 and windows 95 on them. My windows 98 terminal can see the NT server and ping it, but when I try and connect to the share it asks for a password. I enter the proper...

I have a network of 6 Win98 pcs. One of them, a central pc, provides a shared database and an email service (vpop3). I am replacing them with new WinXP pcs. They are all set up with share-level access control. My intention is to set up alongside an old PC a new one with the same capabilities so...

I have 3X WinXP and 1 Win98. From all WinXP i can accesible Win98, but from Win98 i can't accesible WinXP. I can ping othe computers, but can't accesible. Please help me!

I have 3X WinXP and 1 Win98. From all WinXP i can accesible Win98, but from Win98 i can't accesible WinXP. I can ping othe computers, but can't accesible. Please help me!

Hi friends, two 98 SE computers only configured to adquire IP adresses automatically can interact through a network ? both machines have the same workgroup's name. thanks very much in advance, Carlos.

Hi, I'm having similiar problems to other people who have posted here. Older computer, reinstalled from factory recovery CD's, now network won't work. I have a windows 98 SE laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300) with a 3COM PCMCIA network card (3COM Megahertz 589E). The card and computer was...

Hello, I am having some Ethernet connection problems with my son's Laptop. I have 3 other computers on my Lan: my wife's PC and two Atari computers that I use. The strange this is that I can ping my son's Laptop from the other three computers. I can also use my son's computer and ping the other...

My PC sporadically loses Internet connectivity. The failure mode happens more and more often. Now it's few times a day. I'm concerned about losing connectivity entirely. The failure can happen during periods of Internet activity or of inactivity. Most often, it happens on a reboot. Can somebody...

I have a half dozen machines running 98SE that I would like to connect to an HP8150 Laser Printer via TCP/IP. The printer is not connected to any machine. Rather , it's just connected to our network with its own IP address, but does not show up when I browse our network. I can connect easily with...

My windows 98 computer i just formated will not get any ip address dynamically from our server. When i get logged onto the computer locally i try doing a renew of the ip address and it only gives me the 169.254.*.* number. So i do it statically and i can ping but the loss is between 50%-75% .. I...

I just recently purchased a new computer with Windows XP SP2 and connected it to my Microsoft MN-100 wired router using a cable modem to connect to the internet. I then connected my old computer, which uses Windows 98 SE, to the router as well. I can connect to the internet on both machines,...

I have 3X WinXP and 1 Win98. From all WinXP i can accesible Win98, but from Win98 i can't accesible WinXP. I can ping othe computers, but can't accesible. Please help me!

Some months ago, an IT guy linked up my Windows 98PC with my 'xp home' pc, so that a sub-directory 'share'on windows xp could be read/written to by both. It worked great. the network required me to enter a password in my 98 pc about once every 28 days - but I don't know where/how this was verified...

I have 3X WinXP and 1 Win98. From all WinXP i can accesible Win98, but from Win98 i can't accesible WinXP. I can ping othe computers, but can't accesible. Please help me!

Hello: On my rather dated PC--with it's dated NIC--I find that Windows Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network communication *almost* works. Unfortunately, almost is not nearly enough. I have a Home Network with four PCs connected via a D-Link DI-704P router--so they all can share an ADSL modem. Two of the...

I've added a NIC to this Win98 machine which I want to add to a workgroup using a fixed IP address. When I click on Specify an IP address, I can't get the "IP Address:" field to get focus. Nor the subnet mask. No flashing cursor; nothing. If I type in the field, I get a bell. I can switch...