It would be helpful to know what you have done so far. It seems you are
using ethernet cabling. Try changing cabling. That could help in case one of
the wires is not making a full connection.
Do you have a cross-over cable? or do you have a router or a hub connecting
the computers?
Sharing a dialup connection will be very slow...
Windows XP uses networking security to allow file sharing. Be certain you
have the Win95 machine set up to log on to the client for Microsoft network
with a user name and a real password. Use two different user names, one on
each machine. The password can be the same.


http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/
http://www.wown.com/
http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/networking/

If its posible to upgrade to Win98Se, I would do that as the last step
effort.

markh_wbpa

"combrains" <combrains@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> hi all
>
> im still trying to get these two computers to talk. I can get the xp one
to
> see the win 95 one but it wont access it.
>
> it will see it on either tc/ip or netBEUI protocols. any sugestions?
>
> thanks
> combrains
>
>