Networking Trouble? ANy Gurus in the house?

[Anonymous]

I`m sure a few of you can answer this one,
I`ve got myself a lan crossover cable,
connected the two comps together, (firewalls disabled)
and i get limitied or no connectrivity?
where i`m goin wrong, i thought XP could do all this for me?
Cheeers

Pete





BravO 1.8 GT (Import)
T reg 1999
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[sp33d]

ok so u have 2 computers one connected direct to the internet and the other is conected to the other comp, make sure that you enable internet connection sharing on the net and on the local area network lan connection thingy

 

[sp33dy]

oh yeh also try click on setup home or local network, and follow the steps and make sure its all the same on both comps

 

[BlackBravo]

no internet involved atm,
useed the setup wizard, all bits the same,
still limitied or no connectivity???

Pete





BravO 1.8 GT (Import)
T reg 1999
Abarth Kit, Leather, Power Flow Cat back,
Sparco Strut Brace, JBL Sub, Crap amp!

 

[steve]

If you have virus scanner/firewalls configure both to a home network setting. If just windows firewall you should have no probs.

Open the network connections, find your Local area network. Click on support tab and then repair button.

Do this on both pc's.

If this doesn't fix things.

Start menu, run, type cmd. In the command box type "ping" (no quotation marks)followed by a space then enter the IP number of the other pc (found under the support tab on the lan connection as above). Press enter.

It will send 4 pings and then give you a summary eg
packets: sent=4 recieved=4 lost=0

do this on both pc's. if one shows 4 losses then that is the pc with the blockage.

As a final resort uninstall the LAN cards in both pc's and re install them. This worked for me once.

 

[Owen]

Hi,

I take it both PC's are running XP. firstly, enable the "show icon in notification area" for the LAN connection in the network connections control panel. this will show at least if the ethernet cards have a good connection (alternatively, if there is a LINK or other status LED on the card or network socket, this should light when the two PC's are connected). If not, or no connection status appears in taskbar (the two little flashing computers icon), then something is up with the cable or network cards/sockets. Then you need to give the two machines IP addresses, as you wont have DHCP on either. so give one machine an IP of 192.168.1.1 , and the other an IP of 192.168.1.2 for example. (the last octet or digit could be between 1 and 254). the subnet mask should automatically be 255.255.255.0 , if not then set them.

Now you should have basic connectivity, and be able to PING the machines. open a command prompt and type PING 192.168.1.xxx where xxx is the octets you used...

If you cant PING, then you need to check firewall settings, and maybe allow connections from the IP addresses..

Hope some of this helps,

Owen.

 

[BlackBravo]

ok , yeah both machine are running XP home,
tried pinginging the GFs machine can talk to mine, but mine cant talk to hers,
both firewalls are turned off.
ips are as above
subnets 255.255.255.0 (default)
looks like reinstall the onboard lan cards.
Chers for all teh response guys

Pete





BravO 1.8 GT (Import)
T reg 1999
Abarth Kit, Leather, Power Flow Cat back,
Sparco Strut Brace, JBL Sub, Crap amp!