I got ambitious and "upgraded" my W2K Pro laptop to XP Pro tonight. Big mistake. WinXP and networking just don't go together. I have had an issue all along where my desktop, it can't be accessed by the Win2K machines on the network, or other XP machines, either. When I did the "upgrade" tonight, my 802.11G wireless card was no longer recognized, after working just fine under Win2K. I used the 802.11B mini-PCI backup, and it's on the network and internet now. Problem is, now, it won't let other machines access it, either. I'm gonna post up the error message I get so you can see what I'm dealing with.
The error message (didn't get a pic of this one) that it gave me when trying to install the Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card was something about the driver name being in use either as a process or a process name. Both statements were false. It was not in use at all. In fact, it gave me that error message even after completely uninstalling the card. One entry in the registry was not able to be deleted. Can't figure that one out. It was the device ID entry. New Linksys drivers didn't help. MS drivers didn't help.
That's the error message I get when I try to access a WinXP machine from either a Win2K or another WinXP machine. I've had a lot of problems with WinXP and networking in the past. Win2K is definitely a better OS for it, but the gaming performance from WinXP is desired. In that error message, there are no account restrictions that I've set up at all. I'm not sure what to look for in the account settings page, but it looks fine on this end.
Any help on this? BOTH issues? Thanks.