No, If I was a genius, I'd invent a plug and play networking system   

Actually just managed, by flook and trial & error, to see in 98 PC the XP one's C:\ partition, but not the other four.

I found "Network Neighbourhood" by going to Start / Find / computer and when "Family" appeared I doubleclicked it and presto winExplorer showed the XP C partition.

Most strange, no wonder people said was difficult.

Any way now I only need help to :
1. see the other partitions of XP PC (from 98 one)
2. how to use the broadband connection of XP from 98.

luke

Right click the drives and set sharing in the properties.

I not sure of the security impact if you then connect to the net. It depends on whether or not the internet zone sees the shared drives as well, be careful.

If you have any unusual slowness to the connection between the two PC's then it's still faulty. If it's reasonably fast, then you have so far succeeded.

Internet Explorer functionality and web access from the Win '98 machine are now what you have to sort out, and this is usually where firewall issues become a real pain.

Remember to switch the firewall off if something doesn't seem right, to make sure the FW isn't blocking the connection.

Firewalls can be hardware, ISP, third party software and Windows Firewall, so just because you think you switched the windows firewall off, don't be too sure.

You'll probably need to understand whatever firewall/s you are using and how to set ICS up thru that firewall. It can get a little tricky for the mere mortals like us.

From what I could glean, the firewall needs to be on the XP machine only, but I'm not sure about that, best to get some good security advice from someone who absolutely knows.

The XP firewall needs to give the '98 machine access to the web, so the XP firewall needs be configured to allow ICS.

The free Zonealarm firewall doesn't allow this, and the Pro version is required to support ICS.

Windows firewall runs constantly as a background service despite turning it off. When I disable windows firewall, I also disable the firewall service.

Now your getting me confused lol!

You need to hook the broadband up to the XP machine, that's imperitive as far as I know if you want use ICS. The older Op sys must connect THRU the XP one. If you had it that way when you set the network up, then it may still work, but if you changed it and reconfigured the network, it might be easier to start again.............

Are we having fun yet?

This is why autopilot was so adamant about getting a switch, ICS is so daunting a prospect that a cash/upgrade solution makes a lot of sense.

I myself need a home network at the moment, but it really gives me the @!$#% trying to set it up!

I was kinda hoping you'd stumble across an easy way so I could copy it....  

At the moment my Network card is disabled so I can only demonstrate with a similar method using settings I see before me.
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On the Win'98 machine, you might want to look at this, or it's win'98 equivalent.............

Goto Int-Explorer/Tools/ Internet options/Connections/Settings/Properties/Networking......

Highlight TCP/IP and click Properties.

That page can make or break successful ICS configuration. If the network is auto-configuring the addresses thru DNS (I'm not totally sure about this mind you...) then the top section may be ok to leave on auto, I think I've seen it work that way.

But...... if you are normal, you would have the client IP set to ..............hang on a minute, here's a link that explains it all in pictures.....amazing!  

http://smb.sygate.com/support/documents/shn/shn_iptutorial.htm


I wish those people that commented before about how easy this is would hurry back with the clues......  



So, the host PC's network adapter gets the address of 192.168.0.1 and the client gets it's adapter's IP set to 192.168.0.2

Then the client must use 192.168.01 (host adapter) as it's Gateway. Dont' forget the subnet masks, 255.255.255.0

Now you know why I didn't just tell you how to begin with! It's because until you become familiar enough yourself with the settings and their locations, you would most likely get lost in the process. Now you should be "starting" to get the hang of it.

And there is still the firewall to configure!

I hope this helped

Cheers

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Networking is pretty much plug and play on modern equiment.

You should have been around when spanning tree and poison reverse (or split horizon) did not exist.

good to see some success