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Networking Windows Me & Windows 98

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by fvaldes

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I'm running Me on pc1 and a Win98 on other. I follow the instruction on setting up network on Me and created the diskette. Took the diskette to the Win98 and install it. Follow the instruction on it. It all was painless, but I have come to a problem. The Pc2 could see pc1 but pc1 can't see pc2. So I decided to reboot both machines and same problem pc1 can't see pc2. I'm running a network using a 5 port hub. On the hub I have my cable modem,pc1 & pc2 using cat5 cable. I also turned on file sharing on both system. Before I decided to turn on the file sharing both machine works just fine independently. Now I need to back up pc2 machine. Can anyone help me how to set these two machines. Thanks inadvance.

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by dcassat

Make sure that the workgroup name is the same on both machines and contains no spaces. Other than that both machines must be running Client for Microsoft and be using the same network protocol (ie: netbeui). Good Luck!

by blaine moore

Check your subnet mask. If they are different, than one machine will realize it is on a network with the other and will be able to access the other computers resources. The second computer will not recognize the first computer, however, because the mask won't match.

by the wolf

I have had the same trouble with 98/me networks.
What I finally found to work was to uninstall all protocals etc. from your network proeties screen. Then install IPX/SPX ; NetBEUI ; and TCP/IP.
Set Windows Logon as your primary logon.

Do this on both the W98 and the WinME boxes.
Hope it works out for you.

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