Network Between Win 98 and WinXP

[juzamfish]

I have 2 PCs with Linksys Ethernet cards and linked them with crossed linked cables.
The pc with the internet connection is the one with the win98 and I'm sharing it with a PC with winXP installed.
Currently I have to use a third party software called All Aboard to share the internet connection but I could not share files between them.
Is it possible for me to share the connection and files between the 2 computers (from win98 pc to winXP pc) without using the third party software?

[Greenstead]

I don't know that 3rd party s/w you are using, but some can interfere with LAN communications. I believe that if you can upgrade to 98SE you could use Microsoft Internet Sharing (ICS). An upgrade to XP would be better of course.

Regardless you could try my LAN checklist for file sharing:
- 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 (check on XP with Ipconfig /all).
- XP's ICF firewall is permanently disabled.
- All 3rd party firewalls are disabled (until connection is working).

[juzamfish]

Thanks but the win98 which i use is the 1st edition (kind of misplaced my win98 se cds)... so can i still share the internet connection and folders between the two pcs.

The one with the connection to the modem is the pc with win98 installed...

Thank You...

[Greenstead]

Well, as I said they should be able to share folders.
Can't they? What errors do you get?

If you run thro the check list that is all the things that need to be set for LAN sharing.

If sharing still does not work you could disable All Aboard to see if that is the problem stopping sharing.