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by quintar51 1 view

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Yet another question I need to ask.

My windows 98 machine keeps giving me an error everytime I try to browse to a WinXP Pro machine.

I get "An extended error occured".

Both my 98 and XP machine are in a windows 2000 domain. Everyone can ping everyone by name.

Any machine can access any shared resources, EXCEPT when it's Win 98 trying to access Win XP.

I did find one article that related to win95 and NT talking about licenses. Not sure if that applies to me in this case.

Any ideas?

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by bobho

I can't say for sure but I don't think it is a licensing issue with that error message.

I would start by checking if both the win98 box and the winxp box have the latest service packs installed. It might just be a snag that has been corrected inone of the updates.

Other than that, is there anything else to the error message besides that "An extended message occurred"?

DrBob:>)

by quintar51

Hi Dr.Bob,

I know, that error message leaves much too much for the imagination. All that shows is the UNC path for the computer I'm trying to access, and the phrase "An extended message occurred".

\\WINXP

An extended error occured.

XPhas all the latest updates/service pack, and the win 98 machine is also updated.

I've been working with Win 98 for about 3 years now and never seen that error before. Weird.

by bobho

Can you put \\\ into the address bar and get a connection? I don't think Win98 machines can connect directly to the winxp computer name but must connect to a share name. This is not the case with w2k.

Let me know.

DrBob:>)

by bobho

What happens if you log on to the win98 pc as a domain administrator? Can you access the winxp pc then?

DrBob:>)

by quintar51

Yes I can. A regular user can't, but domain admin can. Man, I hate win 98 even more now.

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