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Networking Question - WinXP & Win98

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tycaine

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I have two computers running WinXP and one running Win98, up until recently they were networking fine, but after a virus screwed a few things up I instigated some more stringent security measures and now I have a problem...

The problem is as follows, the Win98 computer can be accessed by the two WinXP computers quite happily, files can be accessed easily as before, but the Win98 computer cannot access the one WinXP though it can see it on the Network Neighborhood, the other WinXP cannot even be seen on Network Neighborhood...

And neither WinXP computer can access the other which causes a problem with accessing printers...

I made the security adjustments several weeks ago and only noticed the problem the other day when I went to use the printer, so at this time I could not begin to guess at which setting change caused the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas where to start?

Thanks in advance!

T.C.
 
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I'd look first to see if NetBui is set up right and next check any firewall settings.
 
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Probably easiest to scrub it and recreate network. Make sure you are only using one firewall.It may be that the secondary XP has the windows firewall enabled. Buy a router.

 
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Thank you for the suggestions!

I finally got it to work by going back and checking the 'guest' accounts on the two WinXP machines, one had the guest account deactivated, the other had a password set on the 'guest' account...

A relatively simply fix although it had me pulling my hair out for a while. One way I checked the accounts, for those who might have the same problem, is by going to the Command Prompt and typing 'net users' (without the single quotes).

This will list the user accounts on the machine, then 'net user accountname' will show details of that account.

If an account is deactivated (like the guest account above) it can be reactivated by typing 'net user accountname /active:yes' (and /active:no to deactivate it)

More details on the 'net user' commands can be found by doing a search on google or similar.

Hope this helps others!

T.C.
 
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