Have you check the following:
On the XP Pro SP2:
1. Check the firewall settings, make sure under the Exceptions tab that File & printing sharing is enabled.
2. If there is a third party firewall program such as Zone Alarm, you will need to allow file & printing sharing in that program.

On the W98SE machine:
1. Right-click the shared folder> Properties> Sharing tab> Make sure it is set to be shared, and that FULL access is selected.
2. If there is a third party firewall program such as Zone Alarm on this PC, you will need to allow file & printing sharing in that program. You may need to add the XP Pro SP2 PC, in the program's Trusted Zones.

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"Dell Boy" <DellBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ECAD9989-F8F9-4DBC-A227-FEF7B90ABC70@microsoft.com...
I'm an IT technician at a centre for the disabled where most of our machines
are Win 98SE. We run a simple peer-to-peer network and one of the Win 98SE
machines acts as our file server (it has a shared folder on it). I've just
introduced a Win XP Pro SP2 machine on to this network with simple file
sharing enabled. It can view the files in the share but if you try to save
anything to the share it generates a "Folder isn't accessible" message. I've
tried taking off simple file sharing but still get the error message.

Has anyone met this problem before?

(We would like to use all Win XP Pro machines but we just don't have the
funds to do so at the moment.)