[sweetcheekies]

I have just got a router so i can share my DSL connection with my other computer. The main computer runs winxp and the secondary computer runs win98se. Now alot of people told me that i can have it where if i type something on the secondary computer that i can send it to the printer from that computer. The printer etc is hooked up on the main computer. Nothing is on the secondary. Was wondering if this is so.. can someone walk me through how to do that step by step please.

Thanks

SweetC

 

[itlu]

make sure that U'r NETWORK Neighbourhood of primary has added secondary by its computer name and also all its contents appear properly.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

You just need to set up a network between the and share the printer.

Networking Win98 - http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/peer.htm
Networking XP - http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm

Basically, once you get the IP and Workgroup names configured, create a new user on the XP computer that matches the one logging into the Win98 one.

Share the printer

When the Win98 computer connects to the network share, have the CD with the Win98 drivers available.

 

[sweetcheekies]

Okay i have all that set up but dont know how i can send a doc that i type up on the win98 puter to the printer that is set up on winxp.. i have it so its all shared .. just cant figure out how to send info to printer

 

[~Candy~]

Can you see the printer on the network?

 

[sweetcheekies]

okay i have it so from the xp computer i can connect or share fromt he win98se computer. but when i try to access share from the win98se computer it gives me the network cannot be found error. any help would be appreicated.

Thanks

 

[sweetcheekies]

ACA do i have to set up the printer on the win98 computer? if so .. i dont have that done.. also i cant access anything on the xp computer from the 98 computer.

 

[~Candy~]

I'm not following you. When you go to network neighborhood on the 98 machine, can you or can you not see the printer?

Can you see the XP machine in network neighborhood? Can you see yourself?

 

[sweetcheekies]

Okay ACA I have nothing in the network neighbourhood thing except entire network. so I take it that it didnt set up on the win98 computer right?

 

[~Candy~]

So sorry, you were typing at the same time I was.

XP fire wall running?

 

[~Candy~]

Do you have file and print sharing enabled on the 98 machine too?

 

[sweetcheekies]

I believe so .. I set it up.. so should have it.

 

[~Candy~]

And you have some folder or drive shared on both computers? Can the XP machine see the 98 machine?

 

[sweetcheekies]

yes i can see the 98 machine and the xp machine on the xp machine.. I am thinking i screwed up on how to network the 98.. anyway i can check this? Or would it just be simpler to install winxp on the other computer .

 

[~Candy~]

Did you turn the firewall off on the XP machine?

On the 98 machine, go to the control panel, networks, be sure you are using the Microsoft network logon, also be sure that file and print sharing is enabled, be sure that the work group showing in 98 is the same workgroup as you told XP about. Also, for now, on the 98 machine, go to my computer, right click on the hard drive, properties, do you have an option to share? If so, for right now, share the whole drive.

 

[~Candy~]

You are on aim aren't you? If so, feel free to go that route, we'll come back to the thread and update. I just had company here that I had to kick out the door

 

[sweetcheekies]

okay did that. it was on windows logon.. but that didnt help any i have file and print sharing enabled.. workgroup is the same on both computers .. I dont have aim installed anymore. I have yahoo and msn if u have either of those

 

[~Candy~]

MSN, but I may have to upgrade when I sign on, so be patient Same user name

 

[sweetcheekies]

okay .. ACA and i have tried a ton of things.. I still cannot get win 98 to show winxp files or anything.. in my network neighbourhood I only show entire network.. no winxp or win98 computer.. we have deleted all the network things and started anew.. still nothing .. we entered IP's etc manually and no luck there either.. doing that caused me not to be able to log onto internet at all.. had to take it all out and go to obtain automatically again. Does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks... and ACA ty for all ur time and effort I truly appreciate it.

SweetC

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Time to get back to simple testing.

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/windowsxp_tips.htm#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.