I asked our notwork engineer about this, and he gave an interesting answer.

Here's what he said :

>Hi Tim,
>
>Interesting, I know XP and 98 have had some networking issue's, but I also
>know that the 98 machine needs to be setup with a stiffie created on the
>XP machine when configuring the network. XP will ask for a stiffie on
>completion and this setup disk can then be used on other XP and 98 machines.

>This is rather important as it also adds certain files onto a 98 machine.
>One last thing, we had issues with the firewall as well, this is an expert
>feature which only an actual expert should touch. Might be worth sending
>to this mailing list!
>
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> > > 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.
> >
> >Firebird was the easier bit :)
> >
> >You would be amazed at the problems using just two XP
> >machines, with one as the internet ADSL conection ;)
> >
> >That 'fast user switch' is a major source of incompatability
> >with other network software.
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