File sharing between 98 and XP on wireless network

Hello,

I am having the following problem between a Win98 PC and an XP Pro connected
with wireless cards.
The wireless part seems OK, signal is excellent on both sides.

On the XP PC, using network neighbourhood, I can see the shared disks on the
Win98, I can display a folder content, a subfolder content, but at the next
subfolder, the explorer window hangs forever (at least 15 mn).
At that time, I can see a big traffic going on the wireless cards.
If I try to do an end task on the explorer winfow, it never responds.
Very often everything dies on the XP PC, I have to do a hard reset.

If I just use ftp file transfer from the same folders, everything works
fine, no problem at all.

I tried to disable Netbios over TCP/IP on XP, no change.
This behavior is not systematic, sometimes I have no problem, sometimes I
have to reboot the XP PC every time I try.

Can anyone understand what is happening ?
Thanks for helping

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"Luc Lecocq" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:402ead96$0$28118$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I am having the following problem between a Win98 PC and an XP Pro
connected
> with wireless cards.
> The wireless part seems OK, signal is excellent on both sides.
>
> On the XP PC, using network neighbourhood, I can see the shared disks on
the
> Win98, I can display a folder content, a subfolder content, but at the
next
> subfolder, the explorer window hangs forever (at least 15 mn).
> At that time, I can see a big traffic going on the wireless cards.
> If I try to do an end task on the explorer winfow, it never responds.
> Very often everything dies on the XP PC, I have to do a hard reset.
>
> If I just use ftp file transfer from the same folders, everything works
> fine, no problem at all.
>
> I tried to disable Netbios over TCP/IP on XP, no change.
> This behavior is not systematic, sometimes I have no problem, sometimes I
> have to reboot the XP PC every time I try.
>
> Can anyone understand what is happening ?
> Thanks for helping
>
>
You should enable Netbios over TCP/IP on all workstations, BUT remove all
other protocols. I believe what you are seeing is related to having
multiple protocols. I used to have the same problem on XP, but it seems to
have gone away with the removal of NetBEUI.

Thanks for the tip,

I do not have NetBEUI on my XP machine, .

I have seen somewhere that all I need is TCP/IP and Netbios over TCP/IP, is
that right ?
If this is true, what is the use of "Clients for Microsoft network" and
"File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" protocols ?

Anyway, I will try to remove everything except TCP/IP and keep you informed.

Regards,



"Moshup Trail" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> bottom-posted:
> "Luc Lecocq" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:402ead96$0$28118$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having the following problem between a Win98 PC and an XP Pro
> connected
> > with wireless cards.
> > The wireless part seems OK, signal is excellent on both sides.
> >
> > On the XP PC, using network neighbourhood, I can see the shared disks on
> the
> > Win98, I can display a folder content, a subfolder content, but at the
> next
> > subfolder, the explorer window hangs forever (at least 15 mn).
> > At that time, I can see a big traffic going on the wireless cards.
> > If I try to do an end task on the explorer winfow, it never responds.
> > Very often everything dies on the XP PC, I have to do a hard reset.
> >
> > If I just use ftp file transfer from the same folders, everything works
> > fine, no problem at all.
> >
> > I tried to disable Netbios over TCP/IP on XP, no change.
> > This behavior is not systematic, sometimes I have no problem, sometimes
I
> > have to reboot the XP PC every time I try.
> >
> > Can anyone understand what is happening ?
> > Thanks for helping
> >
> >
> You should enable Netbios over TCP/IP on all workstations, BUT remove all
> other protocols. I believe what you are seeing is related to having
> multiple protocols. I used to have the same problem on XP, but it seems
to
> have gone away with the removal of NetBEUI.
>
>