quick help needed...win95 "talking" to xp

apu95 · November 6th, 2004

im doing a tech job for a friend, and he has an old win95 laptop that he wants networked with a winxp pc. the setup he has is as follows:

winxp pc--->router--->internet
|
hub--> win95 laptop

the hub is there cuz the cat5 cable wont reach, and the laptop doesnt have a NIC per se, it has a pcmcia card which is hooked up to the hub.

anyways, ive managed to obtain an ip address in the laptop, and if i ping the router and/or winxp pc, it works. the problem is that i cant see the files that the winxp pc is sharing. both of them have shared files, and if i look at the winxp pc, it can see the shares from the win95 pc. however, if i go into network neighbourhood in the win95 pc, it stays stuck with the little flashlight animation and doesnt find anything.

anyone have any ideas?

thanks in advance,
Apu

**Zedric** · November 6th, 2004

I take it the hub is connected to the router and not the XP computer?

Windows 95 uses an older method of file sharing, which among other things is very insecure. This is why it has problems reading an XP share. I'm not sure if there is a way around it, but if there is I can't remember it. Maybe someone else does?

apu95 · November 6th, 2004

ah, i figured it out...i did it correctly, but zonealarm wasnt telling me about the ip of the laptop going into the computer. i stumbled onto it while looking at the log...i let the laptop in and now everything works, whoo!

thanks for the reply zedric

**FishBoy** · November 6th, 2004

i think i had a similar problem last year when i was TA, a teacher wanted me to share a printer on a windows xp machine , and the printer is connected to a win98 machine, but it wouldn't work and the tech teacher said that xp can't read from a lower level machine something like that maybe that's the problem, why dont you just get a new computer btw instead of the win95 i mean it's like a classic now people would pay you to take it from you

**Admiral Michael** · November 6th, 2004

Originally Posted by FishBoy

i think i had a similar problem last year when i was TA, a teacher wanted me to share a printer on a windows xp machine , and the printer is connected to a win98 machine, but it wouldn't work and the tech teacher said that xp can't read from a lower level machine something like that

That's not true, I know because I had something similiar, until I was able to get a comp that would run xp. Altho is wasnt running 95 but 98SE.

**FishBoy** · November 6th, 2004

well i didn't know a lot by then in computers, that was like sometimes in april i think, and i trusted the tech teacher on what he said but he's old and i dont think he's that good ask themafia he's better than the teacher lol

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apu95 Caffeine-->Code Converter Joined: April 2002 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 502 Reputation: 60 Power: 125	quick help needed...win95 "talking" to xp im doing a tech job for a friend, and he has an old win95 laptop that he wants networked with a winxp pc. the setup he has is as follows: winxp pc--->router--->internet \| hub--> win95 laptop the hub is there cuz the cat5 cable wont reach, and the laptop doesnt have a NIC per se, it has a pcmcia card which is hooked up to the hub. anyways, ive managed to obtain an ip address in the laptop, and if i ping the router and/or winxp pc, it works. the problem is that i cant see the files that the winxp pc is sharing. both of them have shared files, and if i look at the winxp pc, it can see the shares from the win95 pc. however, if i go into network neighbourhood in the win95 pc, it stays stuck with the little flashlight animation and doesnt find anything. anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance, Apu Telepathic: Q6600, 4 GB, HD3650, Audigy, Win7 64 Phantom: P4 3.0 800 FSB, D865GBFL, 512 DDR400, Radeon 9200 128, SB Live 5.1, WD 80gb, 16x DVD, Samsung SW-204B 40x24x40 CD-RW Psychic: ASUS M50SV: Core 2 Duo T8100, 3GB DDR2, nVidia 9500GS, 250GB (Win7), BluRay, 802.11b/g/n

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Zedric NTFS Guru Joined: January 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 4,006 Reputation: 890 Power: 171	I take it the hub is connected to the router and not the XP computer? Windows 95 uses an older method of file sharing, which among other things is very insecure. This is why it has problems reading an XP share. I'm not sure if there is a way around it, but if there is I can't remember it. Maybe someone else does? Did I help you? Please use the reputation system. Click the icon on the left! Proud host of the OSNN.net folding sigs. Want one? Check the folding thread! http://zedric.no-ip.com/

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apu95 Caffeine-->Code Converter Joined: April 2002 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 502 Reputation: 60 Power: 125	ah, i figured it out...i did it correctly, but zonealarm wasnt telling me about the ip of the laptop going into the computer. i stumbled onto it while looking at the log...i let the laptop in and now everything works, whoo! thanks for the reply zedric Telepathic: Q6600, 4 GB, HD3650, Audigy, Win7 64 Phantom: P4 3.0 800 FSB, D865GBFL, 512 DDR400, Radeon 9200 128, SB Live 5.1, WD 80gb, 16x DVD, Samsung SW-204B 40x24x40 CD-RW Psychic: ASUS M50SV: Core 2 Duo T8100, 3GB DDR2, nVidia 9500GS, 250GB (Win7), BluRay, 802.11b/g/n

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 163	Originally Posted by FishBoy i think i had a similar problem last year when i was TA, a teacher wanted me to share a printer on a windows xp machine , and the printer is connected to a win98 machine, but it wouldn't work and the tech teacher said that xp can't read from a lower level machine something like that That's not true, I know because I had something similiar, until I was able to get a comp that would run xp. Altho is wasnt running 95 but 98SE. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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November 6th, 2004	Top \| #4
FishBoy Feeeesh Joined: August 2004 Location: Khobar, Saudi Arabia (for summer vacay) Posts: 1,685 Reputation: 530 Power: 113	i think i had a similar problem last year when i was TA, a teacher wanted me to share a printer on a windows xp machine , and the printer is connected to a win98 machine, but it wouldn't work and the tech teacher said that xp can't read from a lower level machine something like that maybe that's the problem, why dont you just get a new computer btw instead of the win95 i mean it's like a classic now people would pay you to take it from you

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FishBoy Feeeesh Joined: August 2004 Location: Khobar, Saudi Arabia (for summer vacay) Posts: 1,685 Reputation: 530 Power: 113	well i didn't know a lot by then in computers, that was like sometimes in april i think, and i trusted the tech teacher on what he said but he's old and i dont think he's that good ask themafia he's better than the teacher lol