May be in over my head

[mijremlap]

I have recently gotten cable internet connection and have acquired LinkSys Wireless Router WRT54G. I have connected two PCs to the router via CAT5e cable and have a wireless PCMCIA card for a laptop which all connect to the internet wonderfully.

The three machines have three different operating systems.

Machine1- Running Windows98SE which I would love to get to XP Pro but can't "offload" all my files to
Machine2- Running Windows XP Professional
Machine3- Laptop running Windows 2000 Professional.

Problem is that I can't seem to get the machines to "see" each other in my home network.

Could someone point me in the right direction to let these machines appear on my home network using the LinkSys Router.

TIA

-Mij (Jim)

 

[idea]

You need to be more specific. What does "see" mean?

What are the IPs of the machines? They should be 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, and 192.168.0.4 in the order they were set up on the network. You can use "ipconfig /all" at a windows command prompt to check. Try pinging one machine from another, see if it works. It should.

 

[mijremlap]

OK - Sorry for the vague problem.

The "hardwired" machine addresses are 192.168.1.101 (running Windows XP Pro) and 192.168.1.102 (running Windows 98Se)

The Win98 machine can ping the XP Pro machine but the XP Pro machine can only ping itself.

When trying to search for the XP Pro machine from the Win98 machine using network neighborhood, no computers show up in the list of computers.

I had, at one time, had these machines networked and was sharing files / folders, but ever since installing router, the file sharing has "disappeared".

 

[rc240sx]

Make sure that all the computers are part of the same workgroup. And just to point you in the right direction, those aren't hardwired addresses, those are IP addresses. Hardwired cannot be changed such as a MAC. Also windows XP and 2000 have some problems with windows 98 network access. From 2k or XP to 98 is ok but from 98 to xp or 2k, you may get an access denied message. You have to set up an account for the win 98 machine in your xp and 2k machines.

 

[JackMDS]

It is probably OS sharing problems.

The only caveat is that Cable/DSL Routers has nothing to do with sharing between computers; the Router helps in sharing the Internet, not in local file sharing.

The only way the Router can affect local sharing will involve setting incorrectly the MAC filtering.

Go over your OS sharing, and do it manually do not use the Wizards (no magic there).

Important For the purpose of the initial setting, disable all software Firewall (including WinXP native
ICF); disable any active Virus scan or any other utility that might intercept Network Traffic.

The following Collection of Links might help:

If you are not concern about internal security WinXP has a fast simple method of sharing, no user permissions and no passwords.

Windows XP Simple File Sharing

WinXP Pro has an additional more secure method:

Windows XP Professional File Sharing.

XP File Sharing Trouble

Win98 Sharing:

AanadTech - FAQ. Networking and sharing between computers.

If push come to shove and you can not get it to work. Add NetBEUI to the Network and make it the default protocol fro local sharing.

Set NetBEUI as the Default Sharing Protocol in WinXP.