[thelist] Home networking help - Win98

[Garry]

> Yeah, I'm new to all this - it's always been done for me (although
> I have vague recollections of setting up a Windows for Workgroups
> system very quickly and easily).

Just about to get into it too, not as easy as they claim :-(

> Machine 1 has machine name Vaio and is in workgroup Office.
> It has "share my resources" set up with resource-level permissions.
>
> Machine 2 has machine name Dell_boy and is in workgroup
> Office, and can see Vaio via Neighbourhood Network.
>
> How do I get Dell_boy to be able to read/write Vaio's harddrives?

I think you'll find they have to be in the same workgroup to share resources,
not positive about this but it sounds right :-)


Garry