Sharing from 98SE to XP, problem

[Mainframeguy]

I have recently been renovating/spring cleaning the old PII 400mhz I have running Win98SE on my network.

I have managed to get almost everything I wanted sorted out - even allowing it to print to the other two main printers (found I had to put the drivers onto the XP box and then let the 98 machine copy them down).

Finally thought I would copy a folder down from an XP machine to the 98 one to make a working backup - and found that although 98 will see the machines in network neighbourhood if you try to access anything beyond //pcname (and there are shares there) then it comes up with "access denied".

Last thing I tried late last night was making a log-on for 98 with same name and p/w, but that did not help - any ideas?

 

[Mainframeguy]

I was playing around improving and tweaking the 98SE machine and eventually found that I could see beyond the first network share, though still not actually access any data. Then I thought of tryng it the other way and so I set the 98 machines directory to be shareable with full access and instead of trying to "pull" the files into the 98 machine I "pushed" them from the XP one - that worked.

So I foudn a way around it although I'm still puzzled why it didn't work the first way - it would be nice to have both or at least know why I couldn't!

 

[Admiral Michael]

"a log-on for 98" was this on the 98 or the XP machine?

Try loggong in on the 98 machine with the same Username/Password combo as the XP machine.

Why not goto 2000 since its much better then 98? 400MHz will be able to run it.

 

[ejm]

Hi m8
If you are using firewalls, make sure that the ip address is allowed, otherwise you will get the same problem.

ejm