OK, here's a question for you:

Are you trying to access the same file(s) each time you connect to the 98 box? If so, have you tried to access those same files from your friends XP home box?

Perhaps there is data corruption on the hard drive of the 98 machine.

Also, I have to agree with morganlefay, I would ditch Win98 if I were you (My dislike of 32/16bit hybrid Windows should be apparent from my signature)


I would either install Fedora Linux and Samba (http://fedora.redhat.com/), or upgrade the 98 box to 2000/XP