Sharing Windows and Program Files folders

I use WinXP Home SP2. I want to be able to share ALL folders (not just
those that Microsoft thinks I should) across a small home network which
comprises XP and 98SE computers. One simple example of why I want this is
so that my wife can save a file to the Desktop of my XP computer (which was
easy to do when I used a Win98 computer).

Research suggests that I should be able to do this by booting the XP
computer in Safe Mode and then sharing the relevant folders. But I've done
that (and at the WinXP end, it appeared to share successfully). But from
the Win98 computer, I still cannot access the desired XP folders.

Any ideas on how I can do this?

PS I'm finding Microsoft's constraints according to how it thinks we should
operate increasingly frustrating!!

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Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia
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