"notritenotteri" wrote in message
...
my guess is your caught up in the "security "issues of Xp or you don't
have networking installed at either end correctly You need to run as
an administrator on XP and set shares etc. I don't know about 98
though any reports I've heard say bury it as fast as you can. I've
run Xp to 95 but it took a while to set up the software to have them
to talk to each other.



"Cerridwen" wrote in message
...
I've been tearing my hair out with this all evening. Thanks to Kony
for
getting my P3 box up and running, I now want to network them. Said
box is
now running 98, and I want to network it to my system. When they
were both
running XP, it worked no problem. But, I have decided to turn the P3
into a
retro gaming box, so I installed 98. Now they're not speaking to
each
other - I have run the Network Setup Wizard on both systems until
I'm blue
in the face, they both have o/b NICs and are connected by a CAT5
crossover
cable - and they both have static IPs. Please bear in mind that I'm
a
complete neophyte when it comes to networking and cannot go much
beyond
setting bog standard static IPs (just the usual 192.168.0.x). I've
tried
pinging and they're both sulking!

OK, partially disregard the above. The 98 box is talking to the XP
box and I
can access the XP box from the 98 box fine. The odd thing is, when I
ping
the 98 box from the XP box the results are rather odd - every result
is
0ms(min/max/ave)! If it can ping it (there is no packet loss) then
why can't
I access it from my system?!

I cannot afford to spend any money on new cards/routers/switch boxes
or
anything else (I was going to buy a KVM switch - but the cheapest I
could
find was £120!). It would be useful to have to save swapping boards
and mice
all the time (the 'V' isn't so important as the monitor is dual
output
anyway), but not at that price!

I have just run the XP NSW on the 98 box again and it errored out
(cannot
complete the NSW).

What do I have to do to enable the XP box to talk to the 98?! In
desperation
I even installed NetBEUI (which is unsupported under XP) but I had
to remove
it as XP BSOD'ed.


HELP!!




Setting up my network was severely hampered by a Zone Alarm setting.
Disabled Zone Alarm and it worked. Then re-enabled ZA and set the thing to
see the other computer.

Bearman