Just for the record, I have many customers using XP as their server, and
they are having no problems at all, connecting from both XP and windows
98. They didn't have to do anything special... Just installing the server
as normal, and connection via either IP address or host name.

That's not to say that there's NEVER a problem. There is the occasional
connection problem with any version of Windows.

-Joe

At 09:51 PM 5/28/2003 +0100, you wrote:

> > Fact is , I can see the network from any PC, but the 98 stations cannot
> > connect to the server's IP.
> > Everything has remained the same, the workgroup, the IPs, etc.....
>
>I would just point out - XP is not designed to be a server!
>
>Having said that, it can be made to work, but it is a pig
>doing it - it took me two 10 hour days to get everthing
>sorted, and I would not like to document all of the bits.
>
>I have stuck with W2k as the server her - so I can't check
>things. I started by switching off a all services that had
>nothing to do with the job in hand - but the MAIN thing is
>to switch off 'Fast User Switching'. This allows you to
>change login and have several users running at once. I
>trashes the routing table at times, so switch back to single
>user login, then at least the services actually have a
>chance of running :)
>
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