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by dinoztoy

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I am setting up a home network. I am running 3 different macines w/ 3 dif operating systems,98SE, winme, XP. I am having trouble accessing from the XP machine to both 98SE & ME machines. the XP machine sees the other drives, but access is denied. then the 98SE & ME machines work fine, but neither of them sees the XP machine. I have disabled the firewall w/in XP but the router has 1

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by salochin

You don't say what sort of connection you have, BNC or TP.

There are two things that I can thing of that could be stopping you.

1) If you are using TP, which I presume you are, try setting all of the network cards to 10mb/s and half-duplex. Also, make sure that all the netcards have static IP's and the same subnet mask.

2) As XP has its own security features, you need to add the login names of the other systems to XP's userlist and give them permissions to use XP's shared drives. Also,you need to enable access on 98 and ME to allow the others to read/write to the shares you have created.

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