Network Problems

[RollingMoose]

We're hoping somebody can point us in the right direction.........
A CAT5 line is installed in 3 rooms in our church. We have 2 PC's, one with WIN XP and one with WIN 98. We ran the WIN XP network wizard on the XP machine and took the floppy and ran it on the WIN 98 machine. Here's what we got.....
The XP machine can see files on the WIN 98 machine and use the WIN 98 machine's printer. The WIN 98 machine doesn't show the WIN XP machine on the network. Also, the WIN XP machine now attempts to connect to the internet whenever the WIN 98 machine is turned on.

Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated to us newbies. Thanks for all assistance.

 

[wolluf]

Its difficult to diagnose without more details (and I don't like the XP wizard - too many posts say 'I ran ... ...then it didn't work').

Are the machines just connected to each other or is there a hub/switch/router involved? What sort of internet connection(s) and how are they connected (eg, cable modem connected to NIC in one machine, internal dial-up modem etc).

Has win98 machine got:-

client for microsoft networks installed and prinmary logon
TCP/IP
file sharing
shared resources

Both machjines in same workgroup?
You are logging on to 98, not cancelling out?

If TCP/IP - how is it getting IP address? Same for XP machine (look in network properties to find out, run ipconfig at a command prompt in XP and run winipcfg in 98 to find if they have IP addresses assigned).

This may be a netbios over TCP/IP issue.

http://www.wown.com

http://www.practicallynetworked.com

are useful network sites.