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| Re: Windows File Sharing: Facing The Mystery said by Mele20  :This article doesn't address file sharing between XP and 98SE boxes. I think it does. There are essentially two systems for doing file sharing -- the 9x way, and the "direct hosting" way. As mentioned in the piece, if you have both enabled on the client and you try to contact another box for service, both types of connectivity are attempted.
That's how the old shares with the new.
If it's an XP box trying to share with a 98 machine, for example, and the XP box has NBT enabled, the XP box will send requests both to port 445 and to the NBT ports. Since the 98 box is not listening on 445, it will respond via the old method and communication will ensue.
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