I finally have what I wanted/needed:

3 pcs:
XP Pro SP2 - Server with ISS 5.1.
Win 98.
WFW.

All 3 pcs can see each other in Network Neighborhood and access shared
devices.

I think the thing that helped me turn the corner was the "restrictanonymous"
setting in the XP machine's registry. It was set to "1". I set it to "0".
The "restrictanonymous" setting was not available in the Win 98 or WFW
machines.
After that, I re-booted all 3 machines, and it seemed to work correctely.

Thanks to all, who gave me bits of info to resolve this.

Ted





>> This is very interesting, Steve.
>>
>> How is this accomplished automatically?
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> In article <1128457039.859897.288970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
>>>> "Eduardo" <eduardorp1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks. Why should the guest account be disabled? From what I
>>>>> found out on the newsgroups, it's used for Simple File Sharing.
>>>>> Do you recommend that I use the, uh... "complex" one instead?
>>>>>
>>>>> Eduardo
>>>>
>>>> If a computer has Windows XP Home Edition, all access to that
>>>> computer's shared disks and folders uses the Guest account. If you
>>>> disable the Guest account for network access on that computer, no
>>>> one will be able to access your shared disks and folders. The
>>>> commands to disable and enable the Guest account for network
>>>> access are:
>>>>
>>>> net user guest /active:no (disable)
>>>> net user guest /active:yes (enable)
>>>>
>>>> Note that disabling or enabling the Guest account in Control Panel
>>>> | User Accounts has nothing to do with networking. It determines
>>>> whether someone can log on as Guest at the local keyboard.
>>>>
>>>> In Windows XP Professional, you can disable simple file sharing.
>>>> Then, network access is controlled by user accounts and permissions
>>>> that you create, not the Guest account.
>>>> --
>>>> Best Wishes,
>>>> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>>>>
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