Eric,
I came across this problem about a year ago when I had set up my laptop to
WinXP and was still using Win98se on the desk top. I put a question on the
list here for a possible solution, but I did not receive one that cured the
problem. I finally went back to Win98Me on the laptop. But now I have a new
computer here, and it is running Win XP. So maybe I will be able to network
the computer this time ok with your helpful information. By the way, I was
able to network the original setup ok, just Writelog would not work with the
password as you indicated.
Vince, K6BIR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Scace K3NA" <eric@k3na.org>
To: "WriteLog" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] WinXP, Win98SE and networking
> Hi --
>
> I struggled for several hours trying to solve a networking problem in
preparing the W1KM site for a multi-two effort this past
> weekend. Our server computer (and internet gateway) is a WinXP Pro
machine. The other computers are smaller and run Win98SE to
> minimize the operating system workload.
>
> All the computers could see each other's file systems and move files
around with Windows, so we knew that TCP/IP networking was
> working.
>
> Every computer used the same username and password. The WinXP computer
user account had Administrator privileges.
>
> When a Win98SE machine was instructed to "Link to the Network", a
pop-up window would ask for a password in order to access the
> WinXP Pro machine that was acting as our WriteLog server. Entering the
proper password resulted in an "invalid password" message.
>
> After a lot of head scratching and a couple of frustrating hours of
testing, a flash of inspired hunchwork revealed the solution.
> The particular piece of Win98SE code that WriteLog employs in its
intermachine communication does NOT recognize case. Any password
> typed in is converted to upper case. On the other hand, WinNT and WinXP
are both case-sensitive. When we changed the user account
> password on the WinXP machine to only uppercase letters, everything worked
perfectly.
>
> This hard-won obscure fact needs to be added to the base of WL
networking knowledge.
>
> -- Eric K3NA
>
>
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