Just did an upgrade to XP from ME. My other machines are still 98SE's. Networking was up and going fine before the upgrade but I can't seem to find the answer to getting it going again since the upgrade.
My first try to upgrade did not go well. I just put in the CD and went with it - got all sorts of errors. Talked to MS and they said I need to get all the third party software off the hard drive and take out anything connected to the computer and start clean. I just moved my old hard drive to a slave position and pulled the plugs on all the attachments. This let XP load fine. Next I connected the modem and got back on the NET. Next I intended to get the network up and going to give the other computers access to the NET, but they just don't see each other. I had XP create a client diskette and used that but still nothing. Each computer only list itself when I click on Network Places or Network Neighborhood.
What am I missing?
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1: Turn off Windows Firewall
2: Remove all Network protocols except TCP/IP from all machines
3: If you do not have a router for DHCP, set IP addresses for all computers such as 192.168.1.2 and then
192.168.1.3, etc last octet must be a different number and cannot use 0 or 255
subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 for all PCs.
4: All computers have same workgroup name.
5: It may take an hour or so with all computers on for Windows to show the PCs in Explorer.
6: Turn off every computer after all is set.
Then reboot the XP machine first.
7: Even this may not solve all network problems between 98 and XP
I will check all you have suggested. Thanks.
Also, it seems somewhere, when I was reading through some of the reviews about XP, before I decided to make the switch, I vagely remember something about 32 vs NTFS or something. Is this a possibility? If so, is there some way to look to see which way my OS is set? If it has to match my 98SE machines, and they are different, how can I change the XP machine or do I have to wipe the hard drive clean (format) and start over?
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