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    Win98SE & XP Home

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Bomber-Stud, Nov 13, 2007.

  1. Bomber-Stud

    Bomber-Stud Notebook Consultant

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    Hey.
    Im trying to set up a wireless network connection (for file and print sharing) on a machine with XP home and windows 98se. (...its old I know...)

    The xp home machine is the main computer connected to the router (wrt54g), the 98se machine has a wireless linksys pci card... which connects to the internet no problem!

    but I cant seem to get the win98 machine to "see" the xp machine.. and vice versa.

    They both have the same workgroup name.
    File and print sharing is turned on, on the win98 machine.
    File and print sharing works fine on the xp machine, in the sense that its already working on a network with an xp pro laptop, and vista bus. laptop.

    any suggestions?
    Thanks!
     
    Bomber-Stud, Nov 13, 2007
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    it took me about 8 hours of tweaking to get a network between (i have no idea what solved it either) 98 and xp working and trust me, its not worth the trouble, just upgrade the OS on the win 98
     
    timtravel42, Nov 13, 2007
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  3. Bomber-Stud

    Bomber-Stud Notebook Consultant

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    haha thanks.
    im not sure how well that computer would run xp home though...

    ...its a PII 333Mhz, 384mb ram, some nvidia 32mb gpu (geforce 2 i think...)
     
    Bomber-Stud, Nov 13, 2007
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  4. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    I'm running windows XP good on the computer i'm typing this on, with less memory and integrated graphics, you should be fine,
     
    booboo12, Nov 13, 2007
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  5. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Yeah, my dad has something similar in his office, XP'll be fine. The 384 RAM definitely helps speed things up even if the processor is not... blazing. But yeah, don't try using Vista on that XD
     
    Commander Wolf, Nov 13, 2007
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    thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist

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    How do you run XP on your machine with 192 MB RAM? Do you limit the startup items and such?
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Nov 14, 2007
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