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Big thanks, it works! Now, looking back, I believe I got a lot of "help" from my good old firewall that I omitted to disable :-P I mean, it was the reason my computers weren't seeing each other for, even when network setting were right. Yes, there is an "allow this IPs" list, but I just wasn't...

Cable is OK. On the PC running XP I made a dual boot (Win98/XP), and while running Win98 on both, PCs have no trouble seeing each other. Thanks for the pdf, I'll go studying it.

anyway, If not (as I believe), where could be the problem in configuration (on the software side)?

I asked and I was assured that the jacks are wired the proper way. However, when I look the jacks, I can see that not *all* the wires are reversed. So, is that wrong? If I have eight wires, "crossover" means necessarily something like this below? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Well, I told the guys at the computer store twice to make a "twisted pair" cable (that is "crossover", right?), and now that you repeat it, I'll go tomorow and ask them wich way they put the jacks... But I'm pretty sure that's not the problem... I specifically told the guy that I'm gona link...

I have no router or hub, just two PCs directly linked. I have shared files on both machines, and neither recognizes the other one, nor via "network Neighborhood/My Network Places" nor via "Find -> Computer Name". :( I want to share files (both ways) and a printer on the Win98 computer. I do...

I have two PCs, running WinXp to Win98, respectively. Both have the same type of Ethernet Adaptors and the correct cable between. I ran the "The home setup Wizard" provided by XP under both machines. The wizard "completed successfully" on both, but: - the Win98 machine shows me only the local...