Thanks Rob for your very helpful information about the Network connections..It solved the problem.The connection is normal now(no messages appear when the two PC's are connected).
Though am having a trouble with accessing shared drivers of the XP PC.Win Me didn't show the drivers when I opened "My Network Places".
what I did was to go to LAN Properties in XP and to change IP address manually to 192.168.1.1 with 255.255.255.0 as subnet.
On Win Me,I changed the IP to 192.168.1.2 (same subnet) ,then added 192.168.1.1 to DNS and Gateway.at this point,the message that used to appear on XP disappeared but I couldn't see any shared drivers on Win Me.I was only able to see Shared Folders.Is there anyway to solve it?
Just another little question,Win Me is asking me whenever i start or restart the PC to enter the username name,it is kinda useless since only one person uses this PC,this happened after i did the above changes?Is there anyway to stop it from asking me everytime?
thx
note:XP's drivers am sharing are in FAT32 format.