Re: Networking XP (Pro) and 98(SE)
From: notritenotteri (rongwritt_at_alber.ta)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:13:45 -0500
You can jiggle ZA to allow communications you just have to feed it the
IP address of the other guy(s). ZA will also prevent you from sharing
printers, Cameras etc etc if its not set right.
LOL
"bearman" <noyb@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> "notritenotteri" <rongwritt@alber.ta> wrote in message
> news:MZO%b.4481$Ps4.29310@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
> > my guess is your caught up in the "security "issues of Xp or you
don't
> > have networking installed at either end correctly You need to run
as
> > an administrator on XP and set shares etc. I don't know about 98
> > though any reports I've heard say bury it as fast as you can.
I've
> > run Xp to 95 but it took a while to set up the software to have
them
> > to talk to each other.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
> > news:c1ji81$ihu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > > I've been tearing my hair out with this all evening. Thanks to
Kony
> > for
> > > getting my P3 box up and running, I now want to network them.
Said
> > box is
> > > now running 98, and I want to network it to my system. When they
> > were both
> > > running XP, it worked no problem. But, I have decided to turn
the P3
> > into a
> > > retro gaming box, so I installed 98. Now they're not speaking to
> > each
> > > other - I have run the Network Setup Wizard on both systems
until
> > I'm blue
> > > in the face, they both have o/b NICs and are connected by a CAT5
> > crossover
> > > cable - and they both have static IPs. Please bear in mind that
I'm
> > a
> > > complete neophyte when it comes to networking and cannot go much
> > beyond
> > > setting bog standard static IPs (just the usual 192.168.0.x).
I've
> > tried
> > > pinging and they're both sulking!
> > >
> > > OK, partially disregard the above. The 98 box is talking to the
XP
> > box and I
> > > can access the XP box from the 98 box fine. The odd thing is,
when I
> > ping
> > > the 98 box from the XP box the results are rather odd - every
result
> > is
> > > 0ms(min/max/ave)! If it can ping it (there is no packet loss)
then
> > why can't
> > > I access it from my system?!
> > >
> > > I cannot afford to spend any money on new cards/routers/switch
boxes
> > or
> > > anything else (I was going to buy a KVM switch - but the
cheapest I
> > could
> > > find was £120!). It would be useful to have to save swapping
boards
> > and mice
> > > all the time (the 'V' isn't so important as the monitor is dual
> > output
> > > anyway), but not at that price!
> > >
> > > I have just run the XP NSW on the 98 box again and it errored
out
> > (cannot
> > > complete the NSW).
> > >
> > > What do I have to do to enable the XP box to talk to the 98?! In
> > desperation
> > > I even installed NetBEUI (which is unsupported under XP) but I
had
> > to remove
> > > it as XP BSOD'ed.
> > >
> > >
> > > HELP!!
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> Setting up my network was severely hampered by a Zone Alarm setting.
> Disabled Zone Alarm and it worked. Then re-enabled ZA and set the
thing to
> see the other computer.
>
> Bearman
>
>
>
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