Why don't you email them to yourself?
ie send the photos or whatever to a Gmail account then access from the home PC.

Just a thought
Stan

 

I don't think it's impossible but, 98 and XP don't play nice together.

 

What you need is the mystical purple magic wave thing:



Once you get that you're good to go.

 

I have networked an XP machine and '98 machine together, but I was using a wired/wireless router.

 

If your using a router make sure you have sharing of files on for both computer. Also make sure you firewall is set up to let the other computer access the shared folder. If one computer is 98 and the other is xp you should be able to just use your xp disk to set up your home network. good luck. the best part about networking is when it says to contact you network admin.

 

XP should able to see the win98 machine shares no problem (as long as in same workgroup and ip scheme ie 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.11)
The win98 will need some more to work to be able to see the shares on the winxp machine.

If all else fails with networking the connections together setup an ftp server on either machines connect with crossover and connect and transfer with that.

 

Go to Best Buy-

Buy your self three CAT5 cables, and one Router.

Plug router in- Connect cables to computers, and each end to the router. Configure the router per instruction on teh disc from the PC of your choosing.

To view files of one machine on teh other, you must set the (Viewee) machine to "Share Files" then you must (should) name the machine, so you can find it in your network. Since your network is small, this should not be a problem.

If you open both machines, now you can view the files of both on either machine...

Now, if you have it, disconnect your output Cat 5 cable from your high-speed modem from the one computer, and plug it into the router.

Go to the primary machine (port 1) and try to get on the internet. If it doesn't work, something's configured wrong on the RTR. If you can't figure it out, call the RTR helpdesk, they'll walk you through set-up, and BINGO- you now have high-speed internet access on both machines, from one line. I have a 4-port RTR, so I can have as many as 4 PC's sharing my HS connection.

IP adresses are assigned statically, so you don't have to worry about that, or any subnet masking. Go to your other machine, and it shoudl connect as well.

Now, your network is complete. You can share files PC to PC, and you can share the HS link.

For safety, the day you buy the Router (RTR) and cat5 wire, buy yourself a virus scan, and firewall, and load them as well.

That way your PC's have little chance of being hacked, or- if you have a newer modem, you can simply turn your HS internet "off" when you aren't using it... Something we coldn't do when we first got our AT&T@Home HS internet...