win 98 clients can't see shared folder

Can the Win 98 PC's see the server.

But I am presuming that if you can it wont let you access the drive.

If this is the case I will be down to access rights.

If you go to the command line and enter the path (\\server\folder\)will it open the folders ? Are the PCs part of a domain or workgroup? What protcols are you using ?

Is is just one folder that can't be seen or is it the entire NT Drive that 98 users can't access? With NT and 98 clients you are using different file systems. Win98 can't read NTFS, while you can "go either way" with 2000. You can set up a Win 98hard drive on the NT machine and share that to be backward compatible with your 95 and 98 clients.

What type of data is in the shared folder? Does that folder possibly contain corrupted data? And you've double-checked the Read Only, Full permissions etc and they are fine. There has to be corrupted data there. Good Luck. Don't spend your Memorial Day weekend loosing sleep over this one. :-)

Can you ping the server from the win98 clients? That is, is the server's IP address resolved?

If not, try using lmhosts.

You said win98 clients cant see a shared folder, which lead me to assume that the client can access other data on the server. If this is true, I'll bet my ga-zoo its a permission problem. Good luck.

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