WideFS7 client on win xp won't talk to server on win 8.1

[pff]

Hi Pete,

 

Need a bit of help. Today I installed FSUIPC (registered version) no problem. Next after reading the WideFS documentation attempted to install WideFS. Server is an new windows 8.1 machince. Client windows xp. When I run WideFSclient on the xp machine the process gets stuck at "waiting for a connection". Workgroups are the same. I tried updating config file with ServerName= and protoco=TCP. No help. Ugh! Firewalls off on both machines. Any idea what's going on? I've heard win 8.1 has issues with networking but I have no knowledge of what that might be. Please adise.

 

Kind Regards,
Paul

[Pete Dowson]

Need a bit of help. Today I installed FSUIPC (registered version) no problem. Next after reading the WideFS documentation attempted to install WideFS. Server is an new windows 8.1 machince. Client windows xp. When I run WideFSclient on the xp machine the process gets stuck at "waiting for a connection". Workgroups are the same.

 

Did you change them to be the same? By default I'm sure the XP workgroup is different from the Win7 workgroup -- don't know about Win8 though.

 

I tried updating config file with ServerName= and protoco=TCP. No help. Ugh! Firewalls off on both machines. Any idea what's going on? I've heard win 8.1 has issues with networking but I have no knowledge of what that might be. Please adise.

 

What do the log files show? Both the server and client produce a log showing what is going on -- WideServer.LOG in the FS Modules folder, WideClient.log in the client folder. Please paste them both into a message here, along with your WideClient.INI file.

 

Pete