It was a small peer-to-peer network with only four or five machines. I certainly wasn't going to set up a WINS server here, although you are probably right.
Windows XP doesn't seem to access Windows 98 boxes very well. I found this out trying to share a printer on a Win98 machine. I solved the problem sharing it in this manner.
\\192.168.0.99\printer
Using the IP address was the only way to get it to work.
There is, of course, the startup menu. There are also locations in the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
You will also want to look at RunServices and RunOnce in the same folders.
This is...
I sometimes worry about my company. A manager took over a department with four people in May. Within a month, two of them had given notice. Tomorrow is the last day for a third person. One had been with us for five years, and another for eight years.
Based on personal experience, I can...
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/19/toxic.html
I think this excellent article says a great deal for both sides of this issue. It's over five years old now, but I agree with just about all of it
"According to Jeffrey Pfeffer, when it comes to the link between people and profits, companies...
We have Outlook 98 installed on a few Windows XP machines here. They are even using it as a client for Exchange 2003. You may want to try Outlook 98. I guess this is okay to do from a licensing standpoint, since Outlook 98 was actually included in Office Small Business Edition.
Road Runner has sometimes been known to do spam-blocking against IP addresses that aren't spamming. It happened to us once. We couldn't send to RR for about a day. I think we got the same message.
Jason,
We're all in this war together. I have found something which may be even better. It's called "graylisting" and serves as a middle way between white- and blacklisting.
It looks like it works mainly with Linux though:
http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/
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