Darn that XP!

[silverking82]

I've just bought a new Laptop running Windows XP Professional edition. When I connect it to my desktop pc running Windows 98 I managed to share my Internet connection with Sygate Home Network (thing I've already done with another computer on the LAN which is running Windows 95)
The fact is that I've tried everything and I can't manage to share files with my desktop pc, they can't see each other in the network, I use the TCP/IP protocol, IP address are unique and also their network name, I use the same name for the workgroup and still I can't figure it out.

Somebody told me to be sure that the win98 pc is logged on with a user name which the XP machine recognized, I assured this and still it doesen't work...

I've tried everything that I'm out of ideas, if anybody is so kind to help me?

Thanks

Silver

[Greenstead]

Heres a checklist to run thro to enable PCs to share resources:
(Some you have already checked).

You don't need the same ID on the 98 PC as the XP PC.

Note : You only need one protocol (NetBT = Netbios over TCP/IP)

- All PCs have TCP/IP installed.
- All PCs have Netbios over TCP/IP enabled.
- All PCs have the same workgroup.
- All PCs have a unique computer name.
- ALL PCs have network shares defined directly under c:.
- ALL NICS are on the same subnet (typically IP 192.168.0.* subnet 255.255.255.0).
- MS Client and file & printer sharing are checked on each NIC.
- All NICs have their node type = broadcast or Hydrid (check with Ipconfig /all).
- XP's ICF firewall is permanently disabled.
- All 3rd party firewalls are disabled (until connection is working).

Even with this there can be some additional problems to solve.
e.g. Sygate can prevent sharing if you have an old version. You can get your version checked on the Sygate forums.
Or first you might try uninstalling it and install again.

[silverking82]

I activated Netbios on the XP machine and now the two coputers can see each other, but I can only access the win98 shares from the XP machine, if I try to connect from win98 it says "the device is not defined in the network" (a rough translation of what windows says in my language:)

I did ipconfig /all on the two machines, on win98 node type is broadcast, on XP is unknown, how do I change the node type? Do you think this could be the problem?

Thanks for your help

Silver

[Greenstead]

There is no user interface to change the node type.

Attached to this post is a registry patch that will force the connection to broadcast mode.
(I have used it myself on my XP PC)

I can't say this will be all that is needed to make things work but it is worth doing to elimnate it as a problem.