*selah* wrote: I've been trying to copy an 8meg folder from one computer to another on an ethernet connection. I'm unable to copy it all at once. I assume that there's some size limit. Was wondering what the size limit is or if there's some way to copy the whole folder at once? We're...

I have set up my desktop(Win 98SE) to network with my laptop (Win XP) and can transfer files okay via shared directory in the W98SE. Ping works okay. The W98SE has the IP 192.168.0.1, 255.255.255.0. The XP is assigned automatically by the W98SE IP address 192.168.0.2 Subnet mask...

I'm working in a mixed mode workgroup environment where my Windows 98 SE machine is providing two main resources for my Windows XP professional machine. They a A shared folder and a shared printer. I can access the shared folder on the Windows 98 machine over the LAN from my XP laptop but I...

Am trying to set up a friend's older laptop with wireless networking. It came with 2000 installed but someone at Circuit City talked her into buying XP upgrade and also a Netgear kit with router and adapter card. The upgrade did not work properly because of older hardware; she did not need...

I need to network my laptop to my desktop so the laptop sees a virtual drive letter that's actually a directory on the desktop. The laptop is an older PIII with Serial, parallel, USB 1.1 - no ethernet. Windows has "direct cable connection" for serial/parallel, but Mircrosoft says "Before you can...

I am trying to network a 98se and XP machine. The 98se machine has the internet connection. When i try to install ICS on the 98se machine it asks for files that are on the 98se cd. Then it says there are not found which means the installation cannot install ICS. The files it asks for are listed...

When I view "Network Neightborhood" or "My Network Places" under Windows, a list of computers show up. How can I tell, under the various versions of Windows, which ones are being accessed via NetBUI and which ones are being accessed via TCP/IP? It seems like this ought to be simple (e.g.,...

Just clean-installed Win98SE. Tried running game called Heretic II. Game doesn't launch, instead a pop-up box appears which says "winsock initialization failed" After installing Win98SE, I went to Device Manager and removed something (can't remember exactly what it was) called "network adaptor". ...

I just refomatted my C drive and went through a clean installation of W98SE. After installing my video drivers and some CD drivers, I moved on to the network card driver. My network is fine but every time I start the computer I get several messages about missing files (vnsetup.vxc, vredir.vxd,...

Two computers connected to a router and dsl service. Tried the steps below for both computers. I cannot enable sharing on either computer. Going to control panel - add/remove programs - windows setup - internet tools - details - When I place a check-mark at internet connection sharing, click...

Okay....so here's my problem. I am far from a computer wizard so when my Mom's computer (OS Win 98) wasn't working, I installed the recovery disk hoping this would fix the problem. As it turned out....there was nothing wrong with her computer, it was her monitor that wasn't working properly. ...

I have a home LAN with 5 PCs through router through ADSL modem. Everything work fine exept for one 98SE PC on which I did a clean reinstall of WIN 98SE (no Windows update possible as long as I can't get it back on network, then back online... I followed exactely all my network configuration...

Hi all, I have a Linksys WPC11v3 running 128-bit WEP successfully under 98SE .... but I'm unhappy with the way it works. The card works in plain mode as configured by Windows, but in order to enable WEP I have to run the Linksys utility program "wpc11cfg.exe" whenever the hardware is...

I have 3X WinXP and 1 Win98. From all WinXP i can accesible Win98, but from Win98 i can't accesible WinXP. I can ping othe computers, but can't accesible. Please help me!

How to Setup Workgroup and Computer Name in Windows XP Computer name is the unique identifier of the computer in the network. If you want to setup the computer name and the workgroup in the Windows XP then follow these steps. 1. My ComputerRight Clickclick on Properties 2. Assign unique...

The home network i have setup up is using a windows 98 machine as a print server. i have two printers attached to it, one via the parallel port (LPT1) and the other via a USB port. I am running windows 98SE on the machine I am sharing the printers from and XP and 2000 on two other machines ont he...

I need to set up a network with XP Pro on two machines with the third having 98. The 98 machine is to have the printer and dial up connection. Internet, file and printer sharing are desired. Any suggestions on how to go about establishing the network? Thank you for your time. Regards,

Please, read ORIGINAL message and reply... I tried that, I even discovered that IP had disappeared in the multiples trials... Re-instated it. Log Off indicates "Log-off Admin", so this is not the problem. Now, I face the decision to buy another network adapter... This one might have blowned, I...

I have one machine with 2 network card. One card is connected to highspeed modem and the other to a router, connected to 2 other computers. When the router is connected, I cannot go on line. When the router is disconnected( remove cable), I can go online. Obviously there is a conflict. Can it...

I have 2 windows 98 machines and 2 xp pro machines the xp pro machines will see and connect to the 98 machines. The 98 machines locate the xp computers but when you try to connect to it tells me "(machine name) not accessible. This device does not exist on the network." but it show up in the...