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Win XP Home Windows 98 network inaccessible

I have a win XP home machine at home(called \\Family) that i am trying to network with my win98 laptop(called \\portable). Am trying to use internet connection sharing with a broadband modem on the \\Family, and the internet connection is working well, but neither machine is able to browse the other's files. The broadband modem is running through the motherboard LAN port on \\Family and the local network is running through a network adapter card on \\Family. \\Portable is using a PCMCIA network adapter.
Have Norton Internet security on \\Family, and 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 configured in the firewall's trusted sites. File and printer sharing is enabled on the local network card, but not on the motherboard LAN . Norton firewall is configured to permit file and printer sharing. Win XP firewall is disabled.
Pinging results as follows:
From \\Portable
Ping Family OK (Resolves to 192.168.0.1)
Ping Portable OK (Resolves to 192.168.0.113)
Ping 192.168.0.1 OK
Ping 192.168.0.113 OK
From \\Family
Ping Portable- Results in "Ping request could not file host portable"
Ping Family -Resolves to 192.168.0.1, but times out trying to ping
Ping 192.168.0.1 also times out
Ping 192.168.0.113 OK

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OK, have done this, but results are the same. Could you please tell me what tools are available to me to try to get a better picture of what may be happening.