Network problems (XP Home & w95)

[lukeb]

Hello all,
I am trying to network two systems together to share a printer (on dial up so no internet connection sharing is needed). The test installs on my Windows 95 and XP Pro system worked without any problems, but tonight when I tried setting it up at a friend?s house, I could never could get it working.

When I reboot the Win 95 system, it pops up in XP home alerting me that a 100MBPS connection was started. However, I can?t see any files or folders from either system (except their own). I?ve tried setting folders and files to be shared on both systems, but still no change.

Here are the specs:

New HP system
XP Home, NetBEUI protocol, File and Printer Sharing and MS network client.
Work group: WORKGROUP

Win 95 system
NetBEUI, MS File and Printer Sharing and network client, Windows Logon
Work group is set to: WORKGROUP

Cable is Cat 5 with crossover.

Also, to my knowledge they never had a network setup on the Win95 system, but there was already a ?Network Neighborhood? listed on the desktop.

I am really at loss on this, so any info you may have would be great.

Thanks for taking time to read this!

Take care,
Luke

 

[lukeb]

Forgot to metion this, but after reinstalling the drivers a few times for the new Encore NIC in the w95 system, it began to reject the drivers from the floppy (and would default to the Windows drivers).

Which, when I checked the device manager, would be reporting a Device Failure error as if the incorrect drivers were installed.

I'm not sure if that has any bearing on this.

Take care,
Luke

 

[classy]

I would install tcp/ip on the 95 machine and use that. Create a workgroup on the xp machine, give it a name like home. Join the 95 machine to the workgroup home. Also make sure you don't have a firewall blocking the 95 machine.