Xp cannot write to 98 drives
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so here goes.
I have 5 computers networked through a Linksys router (wired). 4 of them
are running Windoze 98SE and the 5th is running XP Home. All 5 can see and
use the internet independently, (not using ICS), at what appears to be full
speed to the cable modem through the router. And all 4 Windoze 98SE
machines can read/write files among each other at top speed as well. What I
can't do is read or write to or from the XP machine at anything other than a
crawl, and an eventual failure as either "resource is no longer available"
or "the path is too deep" depending on whether I'm trying to read or write
to the XP machine. By crawl I mean that a directory of MIDI files copied
between two of the 98SE machines takes about 25 seconds. Trying to do it to
or from the XP machine reports it will need 60 minutes and it will report
one of the named errors after after 2 minutes or so. Whether or not a drive
is mapped or simply listed in the Network neighborhood makes no difference.
There's no problem with SEEING the other drives, getting the directories and
so on in Network Neighborhood.
I have NetBios enabled over TCP/IP and it makes no difference. I tried
doing a fresh install of XP Home WITHOUT any of the upgrades, critical or
not, and get the same problem from the factory CD.
Before I did a complete re-install a month ago it WAS working but I have no
clue what I might have done last year to make it so. (I did the complete
restart because I was getting a file named "~.exe" on my desktop over and
over again. It wasn't until I had rebuilt the system that I FINALLY found
out from the PCHell web site that this is a Microsoft bug having to do with
WAB and was not a virus of some kind. Microsoft does not have "~" in their
knowledge base even though it is their bug.)
So the point is, can someone tell me how to get XP to read/write to 98SE
machines at FULL speed, without the eventual failure?
Thanks,
Bill Stewart
Cape Coral, FL
Linear Mode
