98/2000 Network Problem

Is it possible to create a peer to peer network between XP Home and W2000
Pro?

Until recently I had two machines running W98SE and XP Home connected via
10/100 NIC adaptors and for two years this set up had worked fine.

A couple of weeks ago the HD in the W98 machine fried and I've temporarily
replaced it with a W2000 Pro HD but, try as I might, I can not the two
machines to talk to each other.

The W2000 PC has two NIC adaptors installed but I have disabled one via
Device Manager and have the machine connected using the same US Robotics
adaptor as per the previous set up. Despite some problems installing the
driver the adaptor is not showing any errors in Device Manager and I am
definitely connecting the cable to the correct adaptor!

I've checked that the HDs in both machines are sharable and are both part of
the same workgroup name i.e. WORKGROUP. On the W2000 machine Network
Identification has been set to assume everyone logs on as Administrator and
the permissions for "Everyone" are set to enable Full Control, Change and
Read. The user accounts on the XP machine are Owner and Networker, both of
which are Administrator accounts but only the latter is password protected.

Each machine can only see it's own HD (as a mapped drive) in Network Places
but I've noticed that after each re-boot the properties for the HD on the
W2000 machine revert back to a default hidden share name of C$. Even when I
remove this share and replace it with a non hidden name it always reverts to
C$ after a re-boot.

Can anyone suggest a reliable step by step guide to solving this problem?

Thanks

Garry Douglas

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