Wireless netwok with win XP and win 98 machine

[ron small]

I have a two computer network with the Win xp computer
cabled to a Linksys ccess Point/Router and the Win 98
having a Linksys Wireless Card.

Both computers have full working access to the Internet
w/o problems. Both computers know which workgroup they
belong to and show themselves as members of the workgroup.

The win xp computer has had the Network wizard run many
times and generated the netseup disk for the other
machine. The win98 machine has run the netsetup program
many times.

Neither computer knows about the other computer. Both show
only themselves as memebers of Ronsgroup (the workgroup
name)

Linksys said they believe that there is a compatability
issue between XP and Win 98. I can't find any reference to
this in the KnowledgeBase.

Anyone have a suggestion?
Thx
Ron Small

P.S. If a responder can manage to email me any suggestions
in addition to posting it , it would be welcome.

P.P.S. Prior to the above reported problem, the Windows XP
machine couldn't access the workgroup at all. Getting a
message that it didn't have the appropriate permissions.
I solved that in the short run. I uninstalled my firewall
software and redid everything without a firewall to get to
the point mentioned above. Anyone have any idea what
things need to be specially permitted in the firewall to
avoid this second issue.

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

I would try to enable netbios over tcp/ip on xp first.

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"ron small" > wrote in message
...
> I have a two computer network with the Win xp computer
> cabled to a Linksys ccess Point/Router and the Win 98
> having a Linksys Wireless Card.
>
> Both computers have full working access to the Internet
> w/o problems. Both computers know which workgroup they
> belong to and show themselves as members of the workgroup.
>
> The win xp computer has had the Network wizard run many
> times and generated the netseup disk for the other
> machine. The win98 machine has run the netsetup program
> many times.
>
> Neither computer knows about the other computer. Both show
> only themselves as memebers of Ronsgroup (the workgroup
> name)
>
> Linksys said they believe that there is a compatability
> issue between XP and Win 98. I can't find any reference to
> this in the KnowledgeBase.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion?
> Thx
> Ron Small
>
> P.S. If a responder can manage to email me any suggestions
> in addition to posting it , it would be welcome.
>
> P.P.S. Prior to the above reported problem, the Windows XP
> machine couldn't access the workgroup at all. Getting a
> message that it didn't have the appropriate permissions.
> I solved that in the short run. I uninstalled my firewall
> software and redid everything without a firewall to get to
> the point mentioned above. Anyone have any idea what
> things need to be specially permitted in the firewall to
> avoid this second issue.