Hello I have an older computer running win98 connected to our network which is win2000 and xp based I want the win98 machine to share a printer which is connected to a pc running winxp - a few other pcs share that printer. Win98 can see the printer connected to the pc but it asks for a...

Question: I need to connect a computor running win 98 and one with XP home,both in the same office.The 98 is connected to a flower shop ordering system and a modem and constantly checks for incoming orders.I need the XP machine ONLY for maintaining small business accounts with no need for internet...

Howdy, I have been trying to find where I can download the vredir.vxd fix mentiond in KB 271754. Microsoft admits there is a problem, says there is a fix, and gives no way to download the fix. Any suggestions? Thanks, D

Can anyone shed any light on how you go about getting '98 to 'see' the other pc's connected via a router?

i am useing 2 computers networked with a crossover cable is there a free network messager that i can use to send messages to the other computer and messages sent back to me i am tired of walking back and forth. thx for any help

I'm doing some cleanup of my daughter's Win98SE system. Every time it boots up, at the very end of the boot process the following message appears for a few seconds and then disappears: "Enter your network password for Microsoft networking" How can I get rid of this message? The computer is always...

I would like to establish a wireless connection from my Windows XP system, via a linsys router, to my older Windows 98 system. The linksys wireless adaptor doesn't have a driver for Win98 straight out of the box, nor does their website have a downloadable driver for Win98. Can anyone recommend a...

i have 2 computers that i try to connect together through a linksys router BEFSR41 ver.2 my main computer as win xp and is okay but my client as win 98 and can't ping the router. i'm trying to share files and a printer between the computers in my device manager its says that the drivers for my...

i'm looking for script that will set the IP address of windows 98 to be a fix one and then back. in Win2k and XP we have the Netsh command but not in Win98. windows 98 have a tool to do so ??? Thanks

On a Compaq Deskpro EX C733 PC an "No domain server was available to validate your password" error message is generated when a user tries to log on to the Microsoft network. The PC is running Windows 98 SE, all TCP/IP properties are default (dynamic), the client for Windows networking "log on to...

On a Compaq Deskpro EX C733 PC an "No domain server was available to validate your password" error message is generated when a user tries to log on to the Microsoft network. The PC is running Windows 98 SE, all TCP/IP properties are default (dynamic), the client for Windows networking "log on to...

I have never setup a network before. Both my desktop and my laptop computers have built-in ethernet ports. So I decided to buy a crossover cable and give it a try. So they're plugged in together with the crossover cable. Now what do I do?

For years I've had a simple little network at my home consisting of two Windows 98SE PCs, and it worked fine. Both PCs had Netgear FA310TX NICs (driver version 4.02) hooked up to a Netgear EN104 10Base/T hub. Well, one of the PCs died recently, and I replaced it with a new machine running Windows...

Need help in getting home LAN that connects to Internet up and going again. Friend in Cal., lost network after teenager did something to system. Poor lady has 10 children. Which is enough. Not much money, so having someone come out to work on it is financially difficult. She also has inoperable...

I have a customer who deleted the Network Neighborhood stuff from the registry and now I can't get the computer to network to another computer. Anyone know how to get Network Neighborhood back on the desktop?

hey, i need to install ipx protocol support on my Windows 98 Second Edition machine to run C&C: Red Alert 2. Problem is, i dont have the windows 98 cd, as the fine folks at sony screwed me out of a few bucks worth of software. some advice on where to find this software would be appreciated.

I've been trying to intall a Linksys notebook adapter to my laptop with Windows 98 and so far it has downlaoded the software, but it won't download the hardware, the adpater without a Windows 98 CD Rom which I cannot find. Any suggestions on lodeing the file I seem to not have, the file...

I have a nt domain and i have some 98 computers. Is there a way to find out who is logged on a computer that is running windows 98. Normally i would use nbtstat -a but that is not working. Is there any third party tools out there. tia

I have a Compaq IJ300 printer physically attached to my host machine, a Win98SE Desktop and I want to share it with my wireless notebook running WinXP Home. The machines are networked thru a wireless router which is connected to the host machine via ethernet cable. I have a DSL modem connected to...

Hi there. I am looking for a piece of software that can remotely shutdown windows 98 clients on a domain. Maybe it can be done via script or batch file? and if so - can i configure something that will shutdown several computers at the same time? something that would work on the IP address of the...