After poking around with my newly running server (Thank god its back
) I must tell you all. If you are running windows XP, in all its forms, and you know you have a working network then I see no reason why, for the most part, my information on running the Emu over a LAN wont work.
If your network works, then really, the steps to follow when setting up the emulator is exactly the same on either operating system.
Yes you can mix and match. Windows 98 hosted servers will work perfectly fine with an XP client, this I have tested extensivly.
Amidst this, could you honestly be bothered repeating yourself for the most part, only changing the steps required to setup a LAN under XP (Really, it does it all by itself
).
Take care, have fun.
Bently