simple network problem

Hi,
assign them IPs & try to ping from the two machines .If pinging is perfect ,check for Security programs installed like Norton , if so disable & check.

Thanks,
Kias

1) I agree that you should assign an ip address such as 192.1.1.1 on one computer and a different IP address 192.1.1.2 on the other.
You would do this by going to the Network configuration control panel, double click on your tcp/ip - > cable connection protocol
and specify the IP address.
2) Make sure under the Network control panel that file and printer sharing is enabled.
3) You must right click on a folder then left click on share, to enable sharing once File and printer sharing is enabled.
3)You can share the C: drive, or any other folder that you choose to share by right clicking on the folder and choosing to share.

Hi
In addtion to the top answers install the microsft network client client setup and Bind the protocols to the NIC.Then make sure that you login to both computers perfbilly with the same user name and password.
Use start-find(search) comuter and type the name of thother computer Ex. \\net1 which the name you identified as above answer.

I would try NetBue, IPX, And IP protoclos. and use A DOS command to issue a ping command to check.
Ex c:>ping 192.01.01.02

Good luck

Mohamed

you did say "two" 98 machines? and you also said
they can see themselves on the network? so what's
the problem? anyway you can check the ip address
for each machine make sure they're not the same,
but the workgroup name should be the same for all
computers on your lan, anyway goodluck :)