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File sharing from Win98 PC to XP

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scra

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Dec 7, 2001
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I had just bought a laptop with XP Home Edition. My old laptop serving as the host for networking has Win98. How do I setup for file and printer sharing?
 
File & print sharing can be enabled in the network properties.
 
For your old laptop, right click on the folder you want to share, select to sharing, choose "share as", in the security tab, make sure you have everyone as full control and make sure that you are logged on as an admin.

From your xp, go to network neighborhood, navigate to your old laptop, double click on the laptop, select printers, choose the printer you want to connect to, right click and choose connect.

Hope this helps.

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The easiest way is to go to "help" and "troubleshoot networking". It will walk you through setting up your lan.
 
ANd I bet you have to install NETBUEI in the TCP/IP to make the XP machine quicker and more reliable.

John
 
Thanks. I'll give it a try.
 
NetBEUI is not necessary. Many people recommend using it if you have problems getting TCP/IP to work, but that should be the only reason - to save time.

As a matter of fact, WinXP always has the protocol disabled be default. Mi¢ro$oft is trying to move away from the aging, outdated protocol that is unroutable. Still it is an option...


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