Here is how I just got it to work. There are a couple important things required to make this work. First, there should be only one master browser on the network. Second, any network change made on the 98 box will result
in you rebooting the XP box. XP doesn't release the old network setting of the 98 box.

1. Shut down your XP box.

2. Remove all the protocals and NIC card setups from your 98 box Network Properties menu.

3. Via device manager remove the NIC from the 98 box and reboot.


4. When the 98 box comes back up it should find the NIC.

5. Reboot the 98 box again.

6. Then go back into 98 network properties and bind your protocols. TCP/IP, Clients for MS, Netbios over TCP/IP.

7. Disable the master browser option on your 98 box. Let XP be the master browser on the network.

How to disable master browser in 98.

Open network properties
Select file and print sharing
Select properties for file and print sharing
Set master browser to disabled

8. Reboot the 98 box

9. Power up your XP box

10. Disable ALL firewalls and AV software from both boxes (this is for tesing only) and double check the IP schemas and workgroup name.

11. Try to ping your 98 box from the XP box

Once you can ping your box, you can set up your shares. Once you setup your shares, reboot both your boxes.