Networking 98 SE with XP Pro

Hi,
I have an old Pentium II laptop with 94MB Ram running on W98 SE, which I
only use because its dock station is SCSI and connected to my flat and my
slide scanners.
I would like to network it with my PC with XP Pro SP2 so I could monitor the
scanners from the PC.
Is it possible and if so, would someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your help
Pascal

Unless you have a third party application I don't know how you plan on monitoring
since you don't mention.
Otherwise for setting up a network you have a few choices, the best would be to
purchase a 4 Port Nat router which only costs approx $60.00 U.S.

For good info on setting up a network:
www.wown.com
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/
http://www.homepcnetwork.com/


--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



"Pascal" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I have an old Pentium II laptop with 94MB Ram running on W98 SE, which I
only use because its dock station is SCSI and connected to my flat and my
slide scanners.
I would like to network it with my PC with XP Pro SP2 so I could monitor the
scanners from the PC.
Is it possible and if so, would someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your help
Pascal

I should probably not have posted here and should have looked more closely at
the 98 networking section.
So first i will try what is suggested by Steve and Jim in the thread with
Moonraker

"Pascal" wrote:

Hi,
I have an old Pentium II laptop with 94MB Ram running on W98 SE, which I
only use because its dock station is SCSI and connected to my flat and my
slide scanners.
I would like to network it with my PC with XP Pro SP2 so I could monitor the
scanners from the PC.
Is it possible and if so, would someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your help
Pascal

"Pascal" wrote in message

I should probably not have posted here and should have looked more
closely at the 98 networking section.
So first i will try what is suggested by Steve and Jim in the thread with
Moonraker


Where is the link that you are referring to with moomraker, or do you mean
the networking newsgroup?

Anyway, I transfer files between different computers running with
W98SE/W2000pro/WXPro all the time, and do it through the network via a
Router which not only serves well for that - but also an excellent NAT
firewall to the outside world as well.

Rick



"Pascal" wrote:

Hi,
I have an old Pentium II laptop with 94MB Ram running on W98 SE, which I
only use because its dock station is SCSI and connected to my flat and
my slide scanners.
I would like to network it with my PC with XP Pro SP2 so I could
monitor the scanners from the PC.
Is it possible and if so, would someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your help
Pascal

Thank you Brian and Rick for your replies,
I should have mentioned that I have a D-link DI624 wireless router. it works
but seems to slow down my internet connection compared to a direct connection
to the dsl modem.
The thread i was mentioning is indeed in the networking section.
After reading it seems to focus on the internet sharing which I am not
interested in.
I do not need the laptop to connect to the internet but just with the PC.
Do you have any idea how I should proceed. these computers used to be
connected to a network. Is there a procedure to check what I still have in
terms of network in order to do clean installation of the network or can I
just run the wizard as explained in the networking section?
Brian, what do you mean by third party application?
Thanks again for your help
Pascal

"Rick Chauvin" wrote:



"Pascal" wrote in message

I should probably not have posted here and should have looked more
closely at the 98 networking section.
So first i will try what is suggested by Steve and Jim in the thread with
Moonraker


Where is the link that you are referring to with moomraker, or do you mean
the networking newsgroup?

Anyway, I transfer files between different computers running with
W98SE/W2000pro/WXPro all the time, and do it through the network via a
Router which not only serves well for that - but also an excellent NAT
firewall to the outside world as well.

Rick



"Pascal" wrote:

Hi,
I have an old Pentium II laptop with 94MB Ram running on W98 SE, which I
only use because its dock station is SCSI and connected to my flat and
my slide scanners.
I would like to network it with my PC with XP Pro SP2 so I could
monitor the scanners from the PC.
Is it possible and if so, would someone tell me how to do it?
Thanks for your help
Pascal

You should be able to just run the wizard, but if you want to clean things
first simply remove the network components one by one.

Networking machines together does not automatically give you the ability to
share resources. File and printer sharing enables you to share file
storage and printers, but sharing other devices, such as a scanner, requires
third party software, if it's doable at all. So you will not get the
ability to 'monitor' scanning just by networking the machines. Whether or
not you can do what you want depends on just what you mean by 'monitoring',
the capabilities of your scanning software, and what's available to share a
scanner.

If you are trying to 'monitor' the creation of image files in the folder
that they are being scanned to, then file sharing will enable that.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Pascal" wrote in message
...
Thank you Brian and Rick for your replies,
I should have mentioned that I have a D-link DI624 wireless router. it
works
but seems to slow down my internet connection compared to a direct
connection
to the dsl modem.
The thread i was mentioning is indeed in the networking section.
After reading it seems to focus on the internet sharing which I am not
interested in.
I do not need the laptop to connect to the internet but just with the PC.
Do you have any idea how I should proceed. these computers used to be
connected to a network. Is there a procedure to check what I still have in
terms of network in order to do clean installation of the network or can I
just run the wizard as explained in the networking section?
Brian, what do you mean by third party application?
Thanks again for your help
Pascal

"Pascal" wrote in message

Thank you Brian and Rick for your replies,
I should have mentioned that I have a D-link DI624 wireless router. it
works but seems to slow down my internet connection compared to a direct
connection to the dsl modem.
The thread i was mentioning is indeed in the networking section.
After reading it seems to focus on the internet sharing which I am not
interested in.
I do not need the laptop to connect to the internet but just with the PC.
Do you have any idea how I should proceed. these computers used to be
connected to a network. Is there a procedure to check what I still have
in terms of network in order to do clean installation of the network or
can I just run the wizard as explained in the networking section?
Brian, what do you mean by third party application?
Thanks again for your help
Pascal


I see you conversation over in the networking group via the MS forums for
O/OE users:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...n98.networking
...under

----- Original Message -----
From: "Moonraker"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.networking
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:32 PM
Subject: network setup wizard

Or listed at Google's cache:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3c94d80a28e6fd

Anyway, at the other post your first reply has some excellent links for
reference from Steve Winograd MVP's website with instructions and
screenshots, also with the other posts links, and so is all a valuable
source how to network the two together. You have so much conversation
going I'm not sure now what you're asking anymore since you do say in the
other thread that they are connected but you haven't tried sharing files
with it.

Anyway back to this OP here, after you get the network setup to see one
another, then to your question here about you saying you want to
monitor/work the scanners from one computer through to the other, which I
doubt you can 'stock' setup to work programs/scanners from your wxp box
through while via being just installed on your w98 box (if that's what you
want?) ...however, one thing for sure that's possible is that you would do
your work with the scanners on the 98 pc that it's installed to, and then
copy the end result image files to your wxp computer and do what you want
with it there; otherwise since you say that you only use your 98 pc because
its dock station is SCSI and connected to your flat and your slide scanners
then you would find a way to install that setup specifically to your wxp
box if it can/can't be done? ..otherwise if not then back to the dual
operation of just transferring the finished work done on 98 to your xp pc
afterwards to do what you want with..

Rick