Filesharing Help

[june1ron]

I'm relatively new to this, so please forgive me if this is a pretty basic question. Here's what I'm trying to do:

-Use a LynkSys BEFW11S4v2 to share a DSL connection between 2 ethernet ports (running 98 and XP) and some wireless machines (running XP and mac os 10) this is working fine.

-My question is how can I share files among the machines on the network (both the wireless and ethernet-connected ones?) I've tried all sorts of different settings, but I can't even get any of the computers to find each other.

any suggestions?

[Greenstead]

Heres a checklist to run thro to enable PCs to share resources:
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 wireless devices have the same SSID.
- 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.