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Problem connecting Windows 2000 and Windows 98.

I have two computers networked together.    
Computer A: has both Windows 98 and Windows 2000
Computer B: has both Windows 95 and Windows 2000

Computer B's Windows 95 can connect to Windows 98 and  Windows 2000 on Computer A.
Computer B's Windows 2000 can connect to Windows 2000 on Computer A.

Computer B's Windows 2000 cannot connect to Windows 98 on Computer A.
Neither machine sees the other.

Any ideas as how to resolve this problem?

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enable file and printer sharing on both machines
share a folder on both machines
install netbeui on both machines
ensure that they are in the same workgroup
do a find-->computer--> and search for the other computer (this establishes a session)
make sure the computer names are different, contain no more than 15 characters and have no wildcards and no spaces in them
make sure that netbeui is bound to both NIC?s
use client for microsoft as primary logon

Note that 9x's default protocol is NetBEUI and w2k's default is tcp/ip
I would check the network config on the w98 machine, and make sure that the tcp/ip info for the w98 matches the network settings for the w2k amchine, same subnet mask, etc
You may be interested in the following open question
https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qShow.jsp?ta=networkgen&qid=20139260

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Win 98 has tcp/ip as the default protocol
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