Networking 98 to XP

I want to set up a network between my two computers. I have a Gateway with 98 and an Emachine with XP. The Emachine recognizes the gateway but the Gateway is not responding to the emachine. If anyone out there can help with this problem you can respond to me at tara_smith12@yahoo.com. Thank You!

Have you run XP's Network Setup Wizard on both machines?

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




Terry L. wrote:
> I want to set up a network between my two computers. I have a Gateway with 98 and an Emachine with XP. The Emachine recognizes the gateway but the Gateway is not responding to the emachine. If anyone out there can help with this problem you can respond to me at tara_smith12@yahoo.com. Thank You!

The basics for troubleshooting are:

1. Make sure you have the same IP scheme (e.g. 192.168.0.x).

2. Make sure you have the same Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS IP addresses.

3. Make sure you can ping the other computer's IP address. If this fails,
make sure you turn of XP's firewall.

4. Make sure you can ping the other computers by name.

5. Make sure you have the same workgroup name (watch for trailing spaces)

6. For troubleshooting purposes, turn off XP's and any other firewall
software. You can always add more complexity after you get it working.

7. With XP, make sure you have the same username and password as the person
logging onto the other computers. The default setting for XP Pro is to
require a password for network access.

8. More details about how to network XP can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

9. More details about how to troubleshoot TCP/IP networkcs can be found at:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/trouble.htm

10. Apply the registry edit to fix the browsing delay from XP to Win9x
computers
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...browsing_delay.

There continues to be a lot of misinformation about needing NetBEUI or to
changing the NetBIOS setting. You can ignore both. Installing NetBEUI to
solve a networking problem will just mask a some underlying and potentially
important misconfiguration with TCP/IP. The default NetBIOS setting works
fine so there is no need to change that either.

--
Bob Cerelli
http://www.onecomputerguy.com

"Terry L." <tara_smith12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I want to set up a network between my two computers. I have a Gateway with
>98 and an Emachine with XP. The Emachine recognizes the gateway but the
>Gateway is not responding to the emachine. If anyone out there can help
>with this problem you can respond to me at tara_smith12@yahoo.com. Thank
>You!