"jankin" wrote in message
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Do you have the same services running on the 2000 and XP machines? I
have
found that network neighborhood (or equivalent) is not always
reliable at
showing things accurately - ie sometimes a machine does not appear
but is
there, and my network places seems a bit vague at times too, and
sometimes
98 machines would appear 20 minutes later for no apparent reason - I
wonder
if there's something in the way these items are "Refreshed" that
anyone here
know of? Some kind of network "Polling" or "Announcement" or
something?

Charlie

Well, I just ran into an article that states one can add netbeui to
xp in order to retain compatability with earlier versions. So I will
do that as see what I can find.


Just to add data, now all works except neither the win2K nor the xp
machine can ping the win98 machine although the respond to the win98
machine's pings; all other ping directions also work. Everything
else works though (folder and file access, internet access, etc.).
Scanning the net, it is obvious that this is not a unique problem and
may be unsovable.

OK - more data - I changed all 3 firewalls to the symantec client
(got rid of zonealarm entirely. NOW the machines can all ping each
other! So I have tcpip and netbeui running on all 3 machines,
including the xp machine. Two problems remain:

1) the win 98 machine that cannot see or connect to the win2K machine
in any manner. The win98 machine has logins enabled and they are
used. It can see the xp machine, but it csan't open the shared
foldres (demanding a password for IPC$)

2) the win2K machine can see all 3 machines, but cannot get to the xp
machines shared folders, rejecting the login unsername & password.
Needless top say, these do exist and I am not mispelling them.

Nopte that the XP machine can see & connect to all 3 mchines without
problems. (and no, I will not change all 3 machine to xp - I need
the win98 machine to run legacy programs).


Mmh. It seems the firewall ***was*** the problem all along . . .
I suggest you get rid of NetBEUI. You don't need it, as TCP/IP
will do everything you want. Having an unnecessary protocol will
only cloud the issues.

About your Win98 problem: Make sure that all machines use
the same account / password. Also: Try to walk before you run,
by creating an ordinary share on the Win2000 PC instead of
trying to connect to the administrative share C$ straight away.

About your WinXP problem: Launch "My Computer" on the
WinXP PC, then click Tools / Folder Options / View and
click "Use simple file sharing".