Harry,

Assuming you are using stright Netbios (not Netbios over TCP/IP) and you
have the XP stuff installed, in theory it's eally rather straight forward once you
have things running and you avoid any password/security issues.

For instance, if you make sure you have a resource (share) defined on an
OS/2 machine (which will assume is named FRED) such as the following:
        net share ABC=C:\
you should be able to "see" that the share is defined correctly by typing
(on the same machine nameed FRED):
        net view \\fred
which should show, among other things:
        ABC     Disk

Then, on the XP machine, you should also be able to see that same resource
by also typing:
        net view \\fred
and make use of the resource (as drive Q:) by typing:
        net use q: \\fred\abc

If you then do a
        dir q:
and it says "file not found" then you have a security issue becuase the password
on the account on the XP machine doesn't match the password of the account
on the OS/2 machine.   There's a bunch of different ways to solve this but, in
theory, one solution is to delete use of the resource on the XP system:
        net use q: /delete
and then, assuming the OS/2 machine password is pdq try again using:
        net use q: \\fred\abc pdq
but that may or may not work, and, if if doesn't it's probably easiest if you
spell out in more detail all your machine and user names.

Randell


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:21:24 -0800, Harry Chris Motin wrote:

>Thanks, Randell. I'll include your personal address in my address book.
>I did not notice that the address that I was carrying for you was an
>"ibm.net" address, until after it returned to me unsucessful.
>
>Now comes the task of getting my OS/2 and Windows machines to
>communicate. Based on my lack of knowledge in this area, and the reading
>that I've been doing, neither setup is particularly straightforward!
>HCM
>
>_________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>Randell Flint wrote:
>> 
>> Harry,
>> 
>> FYI, my (personal) ibm.net address changed to an attglobal.net address
>> the same way yours did... so you can also reach me at rflint@attglobal.net.
>> 
>> If you send the first message to Sundial to rflint, then it ended up in a
>> generic mailbox the Rollin periodically sorts out (I think)... but if you sent
>> it to randell then I'm not sure what happened to it.
>> 
>> But I did bet this reply from you so it would appear to be ok now...
>> 
>> Randell
>> 
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:04:17 -0800, Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>> 
>> >Randell,
>> >
>> >Thanks for your response. I sent you 2 emails about the NetBIOS files.
>> >The first one came back (I sent it to rflint@ibm.net; I guess that's an
>> >old address). The second one I sent yesterday to Sundial and asked that
>> >it be forwarded to you. Anyway, thanks for the files. I'll update my
>> >address book
>> >Harry
>> >
>> >_________________________________________________________________________________
>> >
>> >Randell Flint wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Harry,
>> >>
>> >> I didn't get an email from you as far as I can tell... but here's the set of
>> >> XP files you need from the CD.
>> >>
>> >> Let me know if you have any questions...
>> >>
>> >> Randell
>> >>
>> >>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>                     Name: xpnetbeui.ZIP
>> >>    xpnetbeui.ZIP    Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
>> >>                 Encoding: base64
>> >
>> >
>
>