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DeMoN · 01-28-2004, 10:32 AM

Since XP is newer, I suggest you run the wizard on your laptop by going to "network places" and selecting "setup home or small office network"

Tell the wizard that you want your laptop to be the secondary and when the wizard finishes, you get four options. I know for sure the last one is "just finish..." but there is one where you can create a floppy disk I am sure. Then select that option and make a configure floppy and place it on the old coputer. Make sure that the WORKGROUP is the same for both. The default for XP I believe is MSHOME but for win98 it's WORKGROUP.

If you use any firewall, I suggest you run the networking from each firewall so that it accepts the ip from each other... If this still does not work, then you are in for a mess of a job, and me for a mess of explanation lol cuz you can do it manually but will take time. Let me know what happens

01-28-2004, 10:32 AM	#10
DeMoN Regular User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 5,106	Since XP is newer, I suggest you run the wizard on your laptop by going to "network places" and selecting "setup home or small office network" Tell the wizard that you want your laptop to be the secondary and when the wizard finishes, you get four options. I know for sure the last one is "just finish..." but there is one where you can create a floppy disk I am sure. Then select that option and make a configure floppy and place it on the old coputer. Make sure that the WORKGROUP is the same for both. The default for XP I believe is MSHOME but for win98 it's WORKGROUP. If you use any firewall, I suggest you run the networking from each firewall so that it accepts the ip from each other... If this still does not work, then you are in for a mess of a job, and me for a mess of explanation lol cuz you can do it manually but will take time. Let me know what happens __________________ Guess who's Back!