connecting two computers over ADSL router 60

4ax.com:

You might want to put all the machines in the same workgroup. You can call the workgroup JohnWorkgroup or something like that. That's usually the practice is to have all machines Win XP and 98 etc etc in the same named Workgroup.

You can use Authenticated User account on the XP Share. That basically means that any user account you want to access the XP share from another machine, the User Account must be setup on the XP machine. When you setup the user account on the Win 98 machine to accesses the Win XP Share, the O-S will verify that it's an Authenticated user account and allow buttess to the Share based on permissions for the Authenticated User Group account.

The link above will point you in the right direction and you can do more searches on the how to(s). You may also want to use www.dogpile.com.

It's been a log time for me dealing with a Win 9'x O-S. I do understand there are some issues with getting a XP and Win 9'x O-S(s) to see and share resources. But with some effort, you should be able to do it. As I understand it, you have to create some kind of networking setup disk on the XP machine and install it on the Win 9'x O-S.

You just might want to try the following services and protocols on the Network Interface Cards NIC's on all the machines to see if that will allow the sharing with no issues and allow access to the Internet.

1) Client for MS Networks 2) File and Print Sharing for MS Networks 3) Internet Protocol TCP-IP

The above is the setup is the only thing I have on the NIC's on all my NT based machines and there are no problems.

HTH

Duane :)