I am trying to network my XP machine to my win 98se machine. I click on "set up a home or small office network" on xp, Wizard pops up, I click next, another window pops up asking "when you click next, the wizard will search for a shared internet connection on your network", I click on next, another window pops upasking for a connection method: 1. this computer connects directly to internet. The other computers on my network connect to the internet through this computer. 2. This computer connects to the internet through another computer on my network or through a residential gateway. 3. Other I select option 2 and click next, another window pops up asking me description which I enter XP, and name: computer name I gave it at xp install and I click nextanother window pops up asking name your network so I put in the same name of the workgroup I used on win 98 machine and click next, another window pops up saying ready to apply network settings and I click next...wizards does its thing and then another window pos up saying: You need to run the network setup wizard once on each of these computers on your network. To run the wizard on computers that are not running windows xp, you can use the windows xp cd or a network setup disk. What do you want to do? 1. Create a network set up disk 2. Use the network setup disk I already have 3. Use my windows XP CD 4. Just finish the wizard, I don't need to run the wizard on other computers I assume I have to chose option 3 and put the XP CD in my win 98 machine. Is the correct. I appreciate any help. TIA
Do yourself a favour and lose 98se. When it comes to networking there's nothing worse than pre-2k MS OS'. Are you on a switch? Does one need to connect to the internet through the other? How are you connected to the net: dsl/cable??
Aye, it'd help greatly if you could let us know how each are networking to each other. Are they through a router, or hub/switch? Or are they connected directly to each other via crossover cable? They both need to be in the same ip range at least (i.e. 192.168.0.x where x would be 2 on one and 3 on the other) and they both need to be in the same workgroup.
Yes you would be better just upgrading it. But is this all your questioning, which to chose on the end? If so, I'd do the choice 1, since the disk is made just for that rather than using the Windows XP cd, which I never figured out how to run the Network CD from back when I knew nothing about networking.
Well, yes XP has far, far better networking capabilities than 98, but you can get the two talking together fairly easily. It depends what you want to do with the network.
