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Hi,
I have a very similar setup to yours, two pc's using win98se connected with a crossover cable. Assuming everything is setup correctly, i.e., the NIC's on both pc's, the hub is working, and file and printer sharing is installed on both computers, and there is no firewall blocking access to "John", here's what you're gonna have to do:
First, login should be set to client for microsoft networks. Second, go to your network settings in Control Panel, and go to the identification tab. Make sure (on both computers), that they are in the same workgroup. Reboot, and you should be set. If you want to be able to see both computers through network neighborhood on both computers, both will have to be in the same workgroup and have file and printer sharing installed. If one doesn't have file and printersharing installed, I've found that it will not be shown under network neighborhood. Even though file and printersharing is not installed on one sytem, it can still share the resources of another, though it obviously can't share its own.
Hope this helps.
This leads me to a question though: In network neighbordhood, do you only see the pc's in your own workgroup, and then when you click on entire network you see all the pc's (that is if you had like 2 workgroups of pc's in your house)?
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