>>Al,
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>>I did get the networking working. And as you correctly suggested (several times <g>) that the firewall was the problem.
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>>Thank you very much for your help!
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>Glad to hear that. Now you need to configure your firewall to allow sharing of the W2K hard drive(s), while leaving the rest of the firewall in place. There is usually a setting in consumer firewalls such as "Let me share my files with other computers on my LAN".
This turns out to be pretty simple. In the firewall (Comodo) I specified to allow network traffic in the range of IPs 198.168.2.0..255. And this does the job. Now I can access any shared folder on my w2k PC from the XP pc.
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