File and Printer Sharing problems

[Plaster69]

Ok, here's the setup. PC #1 running WinME, it has 2 NIC cards, one for the cable connection, the other goes to the hub. PC #2 is using Win98, has one NIC connected to the hub. Here is the problem. File and Printer Sharing will not work. I'm using WinME's ICS which works perfectly fine. The second PC pulls in excess of 3.5mbps from my cable modem. When I play games, they connect perfectly fine, 0 ping, never disconnects. Both PCs show up in Network Neighborhood on both machines, and both machine's shared folders are accessible. It's just that when I attempt to transfer a file from one PC to the other, it says the connection is lost, or that it cannot find the other computer. All the while the 2nd PC can still access the internet without a single disconnect. When I attempt to install my printer as a network printer on the second machine, it simply sits there forever with an hourglass. For some reason, it can see the other PC, it just refuses to allow direct file transfer.

Here are the protocols I have installed, just in case I'm missing some vital piece to the puzzle.
PC#1 WinME
Client for Microsoft Networks
Microsoft Family Login
Dial-up Adapter(Modem for when my cable goes out)
Internet Connection Sharing
Linksys LNEPCI II PCI Ethernet Adapter
Netgear FA31TX Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter
Internet connection shring (protocol) one for each of the above adapters.
IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol (again, one listing for each adapter. NetBIOS enabled)
NetBEUI (one for each adapter)
NETBIOS support for IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol
TCP/IP (one for each installed adapter)
File and printer sharing Microsoft Networks

PC#2
All of the above minus the Dial Up Adapter, ICS, and the second NIC card.

Does anyone have any clue as to why I cannot transfer files across what appears to be a complete network?

[Slacker9]

Have you reconfigured your SPIDS to accept token ring methodology? If I were in the situation that's the only thing I would think would work.

Welllll... maybe you can reanalyze the TDP packets across your SLP router.

Thanks,
Chris

[skippy]

You might want to see if there are securty restricitons (I don't know 9x that well, but this would be what I'd look at in a NT network) on the files or folders that you are using. And do you have the correct permissions on the folders? It just might be that you have a password on your share that does not match up with the password in your microsoft netwroking account.

Wish I could help you more.

[finger51]

'Seems like you have a lot of network protos going. My network has only TCP/IP with file/print sharing, and everything seems fine. I'd say go with one protocal, TCP or the NETBEUI should do it. Ditch IPXSPX.

[Plaster69]

I'd prefer not to ditch IPX/SPX, some games require this in order to play across the network. Scrabble 2 is the first one that comes to mind. I have no password set for the network, not any vital info on either PC. I'm mor than likely going to uninstall Virtual Private networking and everything else and simply reinstall NetBEUI, TCP/IP, Client for MS and Netware Networks, and the IPX/SPX protocol for the few games that require it.

[Plaster69]

Ok, now I'm really at a loss. I set up an FTP on my main PC, hoping this would allow file transfer. IT does the exact same thing. After it sends the first 8kb it simply stops sending. The most confusing part is that I'm able to download 100mb+ files from the net, yet can't send a 9kb file between the PCs. Games work just fine. I am now completely stumped.