OT: How Do You Set Up Home Networking

Mylon · #1 November 24th, 2004, 11:42 AM

The XP disk has a network setup wizard you can use to run on non-XP machines. This will copy XP-networking files and protocols onto these other computers so they will be more compatible.

However, I should let you know that I have never done such for my network and I have learned to get around it. Basically, if you don't do the above you'll have these problems:

2)Win98 will not be able to copy files from an XP machine in the root directory of the shared folder. Files in subfolders will copy fine. This isn't always the case...
WinXP sometimes doesn't like sharing with other XP machines. 1)I get access denied Messages trying to copy files from one machine to another. This applies to some shared folders (like custom folders), but not others (like Shared Documents).

I have had some fun in playing with my network. Like I would share a CDROM drive, put a CD in it, and then use the networked drive to install a program onto every computer in the network simultaneously. It takes longer, but once it's started I can walk away and do something else, as opposed to having to move the disc to another computer and start the installation process again.

TurinTurambar · #2 November 24th, 2004, 12:26 PM

I have this machine on ME, my laptop on XP Home, and my kid's PC on 98.

They all talk to each other just fine. Of course I did spend almost a whole day getting it to go! And if you asked me now, I could only tell you that I tried so many different things that I don't even know specifically what I did and why it works!

Which causes me to ask myself: "Why am I even posting here?"

I did take some screenshots of my net config screens. If you're still having problems I could email them to you this evening.

Turin

Electrum · #3 November 24th, 2004, 02:33 PM

If your running a software firewall, you will need to educate it.

Atrocities · #4 November 25th, 2004, 05:18 AM

Thanks guys. I was able to get it to work. Whether or not it continues to work will be the test.

I was able to use the ME machine to look and copy over video from the XP machine. I made a network set up disk and used it on the the ME machine and used a seperate name for the network other than the defualt one.

Thanks again for all your help guys.