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27732	2001-12-17 00:58:00	What is the best method for setting up a lan under windowsXP. I have all the hardware i need as the lan used to work fine under win98 but no longer. I have two computers connected by a crossover cat-5 cable, and both pc's are running XP pro. one using ntfs and the other fat32. I would also prefer to have fixed IP adresses as i cannot guarantee both computers being on at the same time or one always being on to run as a DHCP server. I have tried to run the network setup wizard, but that has no result at all, and i tried to set it up myself using the same fixed IP's as under win98 and i got a strange result: my pc running fat32 can access shared folders on the other just fine, but the one using ntfs takes 10 minutes to connect to each of the others folders, so if i wanted to shift a file from one shared folder to another on the pc using fat32 from the other, i would be looking at a 20 min delay, even for a 1kb text file. I do know that the network is functioning however, as network games of half-life etc work just fine, no matter which pc i serve from, or which protocol i use. can anyone help me with this??	Guest (0)
27733	2001-12-18 07:00:00	hi Craig, to make this work properly under Win 2000 you have to enable the Guest account on the 2k box. Perhaps you need to do the same under XP.	Guest (0)
27734	2001-12-19 04:18:00	Both of my comps are running xp pro, (one using a fat32 disk and the other ntfs). the one using fat32 can login to the other, but not the reverse. neither computer has the guest account turned on. however i will try it.	Guest (0)
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