From: "Robert Comer" 

WXP doesn't do NETBEUI very well and is  not supported.

I'd assign IP addresses go try to share via that.

Is this PC XP Home? that has some muy weird properties when trying to share
files on it, so I'd try to share files from the NT4 box first.

> I recall the last time I've wrestled with WinXP and file sharing (I
usually have NT
> and Win2k in front of me) I had to delete some damned bridge. ("has anyone
seen the
> bridge?") Can the 1394 protocol stuff be getting the way? I had him
disable it. He
> sees no bridge.

Probably not.

> The two machines are connected via twisted pair. Maybe I should assign an
IP address
> to the new box and have them ping each other to verify the crossover cable
is working
> properly? He sees green lights when he plugs in the cables.

If he doesn't have a little red x over the top of the network connection on
the XP machine, the cable is probably good...

> This page says NetBEUI is no longer supported. Could it be that somehow
the NT and XP
> boxes are trying to do network neighborhood in different ways?
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/winxpnet.htm

It could also be that the XP box is set not to use Lanmanager
authentication, but I believe that's the default, so it should be that.

> I need some more ideas to try short of flying a few thousand miles to
Florida...

Definitely try TCP first!

- Bob Comer


"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:40f43cb2{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm trying to walk my 84 year old father over the phone into getting his
new WinXP
> machine and his old NT machine to see each other with Network Neighborhood
so we can
> move over his email stuff. Well, this is not easy.
>
> If an NT box and a WXP box can't see each other in Network Neighborhood
what is the
> most likely cause?
>
> I recall the last time I've wrestled with WinXP and file sharing (I
usually have NT
> and Win2k in front of me) I had to delete some damned bridge. ("has anyone
seen the
> bridge?") Can the 1394 protocol stuff be getting the way? I had him
disable it. He
> sees no bridge.
>
> The two machines are connected via twisted pair. Maybe I should assign an
IP address
> to the new box and have them ping each other to verify the crossover cable
is working
> properly? He sees green lights when he plugs in the cables.
>
> This page says NetBEUI is no longer supported. Could it be that somehow
the NT and XP
> boxes are trying to do network neighborhood in different ways?
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/winxpnet.htm
>
> I need some more ideas to try short of flying a few thousand miles to
Florida...

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