Catchpenny Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I'm running a pentium 2 on NT and I've just added a system with 2 pentium 4's on XP Pro. I have ethernet cards in both of them and have a cable connecting them, but I've had no luck trying to get them to talk to each other...HELP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Catchpenny,It sounds like you have two machines connected directly to each other with one cable. Is that correct? If it is, you'll need a crossover Ethernet cable. If it's not the case (if you have a hub, or a router/switch), you'll have to make sure all the computers are in the same WorkGroup, and that you have a resource shared. Please let me know whether you have another device between the computers, or whether they're directly connected to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchpenny Posted March 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Concerning Networking NT with XP, yes, I do have both machines connected with an ethernet cable...no other devices between them. And thanks for the reply!Catchpenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Concerning Networking NT with XP, yes, I do have both machines connected with an ethernet cable...no other devices between them. And thanks for the reply!CatchpennyIs this a straight-through ethernet or a crossover cable?You'll need to use crossover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchpenny Posted March 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 I don't know. It's the same cable that I used to connect the NT machine with another NT machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 If you got a link light between the machines (usually a small green light on the Nework Card), then you have a crossover cable and you're fine.Can you go to Start, Run, type cmd, and hit Enter. In the command window that opens up type ipconfig /all on both PC's and post the contents here? It will look like the following:C:\Documents and Settings\user1>ipconfig /allWindows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Computer1 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : ABC123.comEthernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : frontrunnernetworks.com Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-E0-B8-6D-16-A5 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.202.166 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.202.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.202.11 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.200.17 192.168.200.18 Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.202.11 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:15:23 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:15:23 PMEthernet adapter {45F7F700-9B72-4885-91DF-318BC3104E4D}: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Nortel IPSECSHM Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-42-00 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :C:\Documents and Settings\Computer1>After typing ipconfig /all, right click on the title bar of the command window, go down to edit, then Select All. Then right click the title bar again and go to copy. Right click in the response to this post and select Paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchpenny Posted March 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 This is my XP machine:Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Avid Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : NoEthernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel® PRO/1000 CT Network Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-2F-52-4C-5F Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.0.162 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :And this is the NT machine:Windows NT IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : avid DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . : IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : NoEthernet adapter E100B1: Description . . . . . . . . : Intel EtherExpress PRO PCI Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-A0-C9-EF-D1-76 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.10 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : YesAutoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : YesAutoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.0.162It looks like you might need to manually configure the IP address (unless you're running a DHCP server or using ICS) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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