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File and Printer Sharing in Win XP

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by jim

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I have a small network with 4 PCs three are running win98 the forth is new and is running win XP Home. The XP home machine can see all computers in the workgroup the win 98 machines can't see the xp machine. File and printer sharing is enabled andI have shared the printer and a document file. Internet firewall is not enabled on this network because of external firewall.

The win 98 machines can't see the shared printer or file.

I can ping the xp machine from the other systems.

Any suggestion on sharing the Printer.

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by saihib

You need to create user accounts on the XP machine. For instance: on the XP machine create an account called Bob, you can leave the password blank. You might also want to put "Bob" in the administrators group. Then, on the Win98 machines, log off. It'll probably be set at default user. Then log onto each Win 98 machine as Bob, again, no password and you should have access to the XP machine.

by bobho

I had the same problem but with a w2k pc connected to win98 machines. There is a problem with win98 in a workgroup setting. Try this on the win98 machines:

Open up Windows Explorer
In the Address bar type "\\" (no quotes.

If you can go to the machine that way then you have the same problem. Here is an ms kb article that describes the problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q193938&

I have tried all of the solutions and none of them helped me so I simply put a shorcut on my win98 desktops to my w2k machine.

Enjoy,

DrBob:>)

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