A WEIRD LAN Problem!!!!?

Question

I have an XP PC connected to a win98 PC in a local area network. The win98 folders are fully shared, but when I try to copy and paste to the XP PC, it COPIES a small portion of the data, and then the icon in the SysTray stops blinking, and it gives a stop message!!!

I'm sure that it works for a part of the data, because if the file is small in size, it's copied sucessfully!

There's not fixed data size for the occurence of this problem, it may work for a 2 Mb file, and sometimes it copies less than 1 Mb before it stops.

The stop message states that it can't copy because the path is no longer available.

have you encountered something like that before?

Answer 1

make sure that it does not have any microsoft webpages or documents. once i tried to copy from 98 to xp a folder in winch there was a web document about microsoft porducts. it stopped at that document. when i took that away it completed successfully.the funny thing was that it copied all documents , even web documents except that of the microsoft. i think there may be a porblem with filename length. tryto zip all of them with a small file name and then send it over.

hope it helps

Answer 2

That's because Win 98 is probably using some outdated protocol that Win Xp refuses to talk with.

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