I have a laptop with W2K on a company NT domain. It has a wireless network card to use with my home wireless network. I have a W98SE desktop also with a wireless card. The computers cannot talk directly over the home network since the laptop would have to configure a workgroup and drop the NT domain. I did that once and then couldn’t log in, since I had dropped the domain. The sys admins were less than pleased when they had to make it rejoin the domain.
I used to use direct cable connect between W95 and W98, but W2K does not seem to include that. How else can I get these things to talk? I want to move files that are too big to email (~100-200MB).
I transfer big files with a Compact Flash card. I have a reader/writer attached to my desktop and a PCMCIA adapter for use in my laptop. The data transfer is fast and easy. I used to burn CDs, but that took too long. The Flash cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. You can get 256Mb cards in the $50-75 range (possibly cheaper on Ebay). Reader/writers can be had for $7+. The cards are supposed to be good for up to 1,000,000 uses.
Thanks for the idea. In fact I have a USB SmartMedia reader, although I don’t know if I have sufficient privileges to install it on the company laptop. I’ll give it a try.
You wouldn’t be able to log into the domain without the domain controller anyway.
If the two machines are on the same network and you know the IP address of the win98 machine (let’s say it’s 1.2.3.4), set up a share on the win98 machine (let’s say it’s called foobar and is accessible by user fred), then from the Win2k machine cmd prompt, try this:
net view \1.2.3.4
(this should show a list of the shares on the win98 machine)
and
net use n: \1.2.3.4\foobar /user:fred
(this will prompt you for fred’s password and mount the share as the n: drive)
when you’re done, you can do “net use /d n:” to unmount the share