WIN XP to WIN98 Network Problem

[pdqcarrera]

I feel like such a dummy when it comes to networking ... everything's been running just fine and all of a sudden my two (2) WIN98 computers stopped talking to my WINXP PC. On the 98's the XP shows up in the Workgroup like it should, but "is not accessible." On the XP, only it shows up in the Workgroup, not the 98's. However when I open the XP's "My Network Places" all the 98's links show up, but under the "Computer" column all the links to the 98's are labelled "unknown". All of the drives on all 3 machines are openly shared and I've tried turning on and off the firewall ... but to no avail. The 98's talk fine together just the XP is left out in the cold.

Anybody know what could be/is the problem? Thanks in advance, as always.
Cheers, Bossco

 

[JackMDS]

Successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html

As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what is allowed to be shared.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

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