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[Ned Flanders]

Unkay, my old man got himself a laptop for X-Mas and he's trying to network it via firewire to his desktop. His laptop has XP and his desktop has Win98, and even though I appear to be going through the setup steps correctly, the desktop is not recognizing any device besides itself on the network. I'm really unfamiliar with the variables involved with making LAN connections work, so if anyone has any advice for this total amateur, feel free to enlighten.

 

[ShadowRed]

If this is a new laptop then it should have come with a built in or otherwise wireless card. Buy a PCI wireless card and put it in his desktop and then connect the two through that. As for what you originally asked you are going to have a bitch of atime getting 98 and XP to cross over like you are trying without doing it my way.

 

[Shogmaster]

If this is a new laptop then it should have come with a built in or otherwise wireless card. Buy a PCI wireless card and put it in his desktop and then connect the two through that. As for what you originally asked you are going to have a bitch of atime getting 98 and XP to cross over like you are trying without doing it my way.

He's definitely talking about the software issues, not hardware.

Good luck dude. I wiped my brain of any pre- NT networking knowledge. Waitaminit, that's right~ I never had any in the first place! :lol

 

[Tekky]

Why is he trying to use firewire? Why not use ethernet?
The laptop surely has a PCMCIA slot, doesn't it? Stick something in it!

 

[Tekky]

The laptop actually should have an ethernet port. Put one on the desktop if it doesn't.

Software-wise, be sure both computers are in the same workgroup.
Be sure there's a shared account name on both with the same password on both computers.
Be sure the permissions allow that account name to access the needed files.

On the Win98 machine, be sure that the networking panel has file sharing turned on, assuming you'd like to do that.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Do him a favor and upgrade to 2K at least.