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by kyao

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I am trying to set up a workgroup with a windows 2000 professional computer and a windows 98SE machine. so far I've got connectivity and earlier I could access shared directories from my windows 98SE Pc, but I could not see that latter in "my network Place" under windows 2000 Pro. And yet I could successfully ping both the IP and the netbios name of the win98 from win2k pro. I checked the protocols and they match on both machines. The only wierd thing I see is that the properties of the "File and print sharing" service under win2k pro is inaccessible, it is greyed out and there is no response when I doubleclick it.
Does anybody know what is going on?

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by dustbunnyden_webmaster

have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the service? If you can't see the box try going to find->computer and type in the name or the IP.

This probably didn't help much, but it worked for me.

by kyao

Yes I did it several times to no avail.

Thanks for taking the trouble

by Member 20548194

try doing a search on the 98 machine from windows2000 and if it locates double click on it, it should then add it to your network place.

by qb

Put each other's name and address in the hosts file.

On the 98 machine go to c:\hosts.sam open it with notepad. Under the
"127.0.0.1 localhost" entry put the ip address and tab over and put the computer name. Do a file save as and save it as hosts (remove the .sam extention). The procedure for the w2kpro is the same only the file is locate at "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc" (also make sure to remove the .sam extention) There should be no extention. You put the w2kpro machines name and address on the 98 machine and put the 98 machines name and address on the w2kpro machine. As far as the file and print shareing being greyed out make sure you are logged in as an administrator add the service and then log back on as a user.

by kyao

I tried your solution last night, but it did not work for me.

I appreciate your help though.

by izz

Hi there,

Did u specify in the Network Identification the workgroup name. Are u entering a username and a password when you log in. To access the network Identification on W2k PRo, right click my computer and then select properties, there choose Network Identification and then type the name of PC as well as the workgroup name. It will ask u for restart. then at log in enter username and password, and later go on to network place and voila. By the way, nothing wrong with File and print sharing, there are no setting to be defined in 2k. Try this and I am sure it will work

One thing before I leave, when u log in to either 98 or 2k and go to network place or neighbourhood do u see ur computer name at least but not the other, if so then as I told u above u have, do it and it will back to normal.

Regards,

by kyao

I did these things before, but at your recommendation I tried it again, I even changed the workgroup name on both machines and still got the same result.
The name of the win2K machine is visible on both computers but that of the WIN98 doesn't on neither one.

Thanks again

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