sharing files over a network

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by Zonewalker
[edit] heh SirDice you've just beat me too it

Yeah. Read to fast If he had 2 NICs and used ICS then my first answer would be right.

[teodoros]

my set up is:
internet > router(with nat) > LAN (consisting of several computers)

but win xp claims (at this warning that i am refering to )that having a gateway is a better solution.

[Zonewalker]

teodoros - good god no - using a router with NAT you'll be fine - out of interest what model router is it? You might want to add a software firewall to the computers so that you can keep some control over out bound connections but I'll leave that to you.

SirDice - LOL np mate

Z

[teodoros]

my set up is:
internet > router(with nat) > LAN (consisting of several computers)

BUT win xp claims (at this warning that i am refering to )that having a gateway is a better solution.

[Tedob1]

swiseguy:

if your win2k box is formatted in NTFS the win98 box will not be able to see the files on it but the 2k can see the 98.

Teo, shouldn't you start your own thread instead of taking over someone elses?

[swizeguy]

i got my win. 98SE computer to see the win. 2k computer but when i try to go into the win. 2k computer from the 98 it asks for a password and i dont remember ever making one. Do you know where you can find it? and my win. 2k computer can even see the 98 computer. Any ideas??

[Zonewalker]

if your win2k box is formatted in NTFS the win98 box will not be able to see the files on it but the 2k can see the 98.

maybe its different on 2K (don't see why but).... since when was this the case Tedob? I've got XP at home formatted as NTFS and the win98 box in the LAN can quite happily see files on the XP box - ok they are going through a router .... but surely in a network and in terms of file sharing NTFS should not make much difference should it (I realise that it would be more secure than FAT32 etc)? If it's different for 2k would you be able to say why?? All the boxes at work are either 2k or XP so I only have the home setup to go on in this scenario.

Cheers

Z

[swizeguy]

well i tried everything that you guys mentioned. but my windows 2k box is running a fat32 file system. And it can still not see my 98se computer. But the 98 can still see the 2k but it asks for a password that i never put in.

[DjM]

Have you got the same administrator userid & password on both systems and are you logged on under that ID. I did have a similar problem, however when I created the same userid & password on both systems, poof .


Cheers:

[swizeguy]

i am not to good with networking (this is my first attempt) and im not quite sure how to set the administrator user id & password. How do i do that?