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Peer to peer stopped working,

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by wsmmm03

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Running peer to peer network through a cross over calbe. Both systems were working and able to see each other. One system is running XP the other Windows 98. Now my 98 machine won't show up in the network on the xp machine, however I can ping it from the XP machine. My XP shared files will appear and can be accessed on the 98 machine, however I can't ping the XP machine from the 98 machine, I get an error code of 10050. As a side note does nayone know were I can get a listing of the PING error codes and there meanings.

Thanks
Bill

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by normandhome

There could be a few reasons why the 98 machine is not showing up, first, make sure the network settings are the same on the 98 and for the XP, meaning, you have TCP/IP setup on both. Next, if everything is the same and you reboot both of them you can use a LMHosts file entry for the XP machine and the 98. By creating this file with the IP of the other machine, when booting, it will automaticly find the other and keep it activated. If you need help creating the file, feel free to send me an e-mail

by valis

if i'm remembering correctly, there are a couple tricks to get the win98 on there properly, one is to make sure you have "file and printer sharing" turned on the machine. also, it's important to "share" at least one directory on the win98 machine.

generally it works after i do those two things

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