Your understanding is wrong. IPX/SPX is to Novell Netware like a duck is to water. The
difference is that Microsoft's implementation of IPX/SPX is un-configurable in very basic.
Just load the WinXP IPX/SPX protocol (you will bind MS Networking to IPX/SPX [NetBIOS over
IPX]) on XP and you can still do what you want. Just make sure that the WinXP PC has the
account(s) created on it that are used to logon to the Win9x platforms.
I'll assume that you posted here because you use a Router and share a WAN address so all
LAN nodes access the Internet. If that is true then you should load ONLY TCP/IP, use
NetBIOS over IP and perform what you want.
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Dave
"Vic S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:IpGDd.13036$(E-Mail Removed)...
| I use IPX for file and printer sharing and TCP/IP for everything else.
| I DO NOT BIND File and printer sharing to TCP/IP only to IPX
|
| It's my understanding that Win 9x IPX protocol is not a standard or is
| not compatible with netware, NT, 2000 or XP's IPX protocol.
|
| The Media Center machine I'm bulding will probably need to run XP(Pro)
| I want to be able to access my music and movies from my server running
| win98 SE and use a protocol that does error checking and not have it
| accessable from the TCP/IP protocol.
|
| Is there third party protocol software that will fill this gap? Since
| I already have 7 machines running on this network I would rather not
| have to change all of theses to accommodate one XP box!
|
| I hope this makes sense.
|
| Thanks
| Vic
|
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