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June 30, 2004 at 07:44 PM
ozi eagle

Win98 – XP home networking problem

by ozi eagle . Updated 21 years, 8 months ago

Hi,
I have a client who has several PCs running XP home and one (the server) running win98 se, in a peer to peer configuration (not set up by me).
Everything was working fine up until a week ago, when the win98 machine became invidible, as did one of the XPs. Solved the XP by turning off the XP firewall (its not connected to the internet). Can’t get 98 to see any others, or the others to see the 98 PC. However, by mapping network drives the XPs can access data on the 98 machine ,but not vice versa. The 98 machine can’t ping any of the others (host unknown message, when using name, request timed out when using IP address) XP can ping 98 machine.
Suspected that its a network password problem, but user is using same p/w as previously.

Any ideas?

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