Re: Home Network question

From: Huazhi (Huazhi_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:53:03 -0800

I checked

Win98(ICS Host) can see and access WinXP
Win98 can ping WinXP

but

WinXP can not see or access Win98
WinXP can not ping Win98
WinXP already disable the build in firewall

"Chuck" wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:29:02 -0800, Huazhi <Huazhi@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I can see my share folder now. but I can not ping to host, Can I use win98 as
> >host for ICS, and winXP as client?
>
> If your internet service is on the Win98 computer, then yes, you can run ICS
> there and provide service to the WinXP computer.
>
> Can you open the shared folder, in addition to seeing it?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
> My email is AT DOT
> actual address pchuck sonic net
>

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