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It’s Windows 2000 Professional that they’re running on the laptop. What I’m thinking is that the error contains the word “server”, because it uses cached credentials when they log on using the network domain, even when they are working at home and not connected to the network. So then Windows 2000 looks for the domain controller or something when trying to find other machines on the network. Many laptops ae now coming with built in NIC’s however.

There may be one other solution to try, and I’m not sure if it would work with an XP and a Win98 machine or not, but I know it will work with two Win98 machines, so it may be worth a try with your two computers. If both the computers have NIC’s installed in them, and both have an ip address, you may be able to just create the share and then connect a cross-over cable between the two NIC’s and get to the share using the run command. I do that often times when I want to copy large amounts of data from machine to machine and don’t want to run it through a hub or anything like that. Of course, I usually do it at work, so what I do is: Log both computers on to the network where they’re assigned a dynamic ip address, make sure the directory I want to share is shared on the computer, pull the ethernet cables from NIC’s and connect a cross-over cable between the two NIC’s, then go to Start–>Run–>ComputerNameShareName on the computer that I want to copy the files to. That way I don’t have to add a direct cable connection in the Network properties or anything like that. Plus you get really good trasnfer speeds that way. The only keys to the equation that I’ve found are making sure the computers get an ip address, and having a share to connect to on one of the computers. Who knows…it may work, but I haven’t tried it with an XP and Win98 mixture.

In that case, if you have sharing enabled on your computer, you should be able to just right click on the c: drive and click the sharing option in the pop-up menu. You’ll probably have to click the New Share button in the share window that pops up, as the default share will probably be the administrative share or something like that. And then you can choose the share name and set permissions and share the whole drive.

Are you wanting to share just data files that you have on your machine? Or every single file on it can be shared? I haven’t actually messed with XP too much, but I’m assuming you can create a share on the entire hard drive and other users should be able to get your files that way. I don’t know if you want the entire drive shared however.

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In a word: Partition Magic.
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That’s two words.

There’s only three computers using the wireless cards at this time. I actually was using the wireless cards for doing some testing of software that will synchronize Lotus Notes databases. So we bought 3 Orinoco wireless cards for laptops and installed those. Then I installed the Orinoco client manager software on each of the laptops. After putting the client manager software on the laptops, I was able to make a choice as to what type of group to put the wireless cards in. They had a peer-to-peer option, an access point option, and one other one option that I can’t recall right now. So I just chose to put them in a peer-to-peer group, and you just have to name the group the same on all the computers. It was all controlled by the client manager software from Orinoco. The laptops were already in the same workgroup on the Windows side of things, so that may make a difference too. We aren’t using the wireless for broadband access or connecting to an access point or anything like that. We’re simply using them in a setting where a group of users would be off a network somewhere and need to synchronize their Lotus Notes databases. Although we did do some internet connection sharing by adding a LAN adapter to one of the laptops and then running the internet connection sharing over the wireless. That worked pretty slick, but would be easier to have an access point. We didn’t need the capability to connect to a network though. Just the ability to see the other laptops with wireless cards.

Or you can right-click on Network Neighborhood, click properties in the pop-up menu, and then remove the Client for Microsoft Networks. You would then be asked to restart, and that should take care of the Microsoft Networking logon prompt.

Check out this post from the Microsoft KB. It sounds like what you’re looking for.KB Article

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XP is like that, isn’t it? In 98, there were 6 ways to do most things, in 2000 10, and in XP around 16, I’d say.
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So, what you’re saying is that they actually don’t improve the product all that much? Just change the file structure, add security (for those who understand how to use it as an advantage), add about 6 different ways of doing the same thing, and force their whole .Net scheme upon everyone?

Just an FYI here for anyone who has read this post, or anyone looking for similiar information. I received the wireless cards, installed the cards and software that came along with them and they’re able to see each other in a peer-to-peer situation without an access point. It was kind of surprising to me actually, but it works pretty slick. I guess the best way to find something out is to actually try it. I thought that I’d still need an access point, but I figured that I wasn’t in that much of a rush to get this done, so I decided to just get the cards first and see what happened. Then I’d buy the access point if I need it. Turns out I didn’t need it, so a little less of a headache for me.

The firewall probably isn’t configured correctly by default if you can get it to function with the firewall disabled. See the attachment for some basic configuration on the firewall for ports that have to be open for the firewall to work. NetMeeting runs on the H.323 protocol, and there’s documentation all over for that if you do a search on the internet. This blurb of documentation is from the NetMeeting resource kit.

I see an entry for Defrag under HKEY_Local_MachineSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionApplets. There’s a key in that registry directory that specifies some files to exclude it looks like, such as Win.ini, system.ini, etc. Perhaps that was where they were trying to point to, instead of the current user section of the registry?

Often times the show files warning can be taken off by simply changing the view settings in the view menu. I’ve seen several occurances where that warning shows up when you select the c:windows folder. If you check the view menu when the warning is present, you may see that As Web Page is selected for the view option for that folder. By changing that to List, Large Icons, Small Icons, Details, etc. you can avoid the warning the next time you go into the folder.

I’ve had problems previously with Win98 computers freezing up when shutting down. I can’t get into Microsoft’s knowledge base right now to give you a link, but I know there’s a fix out there for the shutdown freeze up. I think there’s actually two seperate fixes for different problems. One has to do with mapped drives, and the other is just a shutdown fix or something like that. I know we had laptops and desktops that experienced the problem here, but after applying the fixes to them, they quit freezing up during shutdown. One side effect of the fix however, is you get screen saver or blank program tab/button down in your taskbar afer the screensaver has been running and you move your mouse or hit a key to make the screensaver go away. No big deal, you just have to click the blank program tab/button in your taskbar and it disappears.

And make sure you shut off your screen saver along with ending tasks in the task manager. Set your screen saver to none in the display properties.