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by chris_bashlor

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I am having problems with doing a peer to peer network with one XP PC and one Win98 PC. I am using a crossover cable and have made the Networking Disk from XP and loaded it on the Win98 machine. That didn't work so I tried loaded Netbeui. That didn't work either. The only thing that seemed to work was putting a router in. However, I know you can get the two to communicate, I'm just missing something. Any help would be appreciated.

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by mjgtennis

Set static IP addresses for the 2 computers such as 10.1.100.10 and 10.1.100.11 and then try again. Sounds like the router is assigning the addresses to the computers for you.

by joenmr

Chris,

You don't need to prepare a Netwoking Disk.

Go to Network connection define the network protocol where TCP/IP is better that Netbeui. Assign the IP address for both computers which could be 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 respectively. Be sure that you have "File and printer sharing" enable in both. And that both computers have a different computer description ("computer name") and that both are in the same Workgroup. Restart both system.

Later go to my Network Places to confirm if one computer is seen the other, etc.

Jos?

by chris_bashlor

Thanks for everyone's help, there ended up being two problems...the first of course was I needed to do a static IP address, the second was I could see both PC's on the XP machine but not the WIN98...solution, the 98 PC needed to be logged into a user account that was created...it kept going to the desktop as something other than a user account that was created...I switched it to the Microsoft logon and it still went to the desktop under a blank name...weird...I had to do a logoff and then logon with a user that was created on the Win98 machine.

Thanks again for everyone's help

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