MiiQ Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Hi. I got a new PC recently and I'm trying to connect it to my old PC to get files and play LAN-games with my brother. Both PC's have Windows XP. I am trying to connect them with a cross-over ethernet cable. No routers or anything between. I have ran the Windows Home-Network Wizard and updated all the drivers of the network cards of both computers. It currently shows a status of "Connected" in the 'Network connections'. but I'm still unable to get these 2 to connect eachother. I have manually entered the IP's and subnet masks. I also tried the automatic-IP's but it didn't work either. I have turned the Windows own Firewall off. Any ideas/questions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helgman Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 First of, since these computers are ONLY connected to each other you should either assign the ip-addresses your self (static) or install a DHCP-server on one of the machines (not recommended). I'd go for the static addresses, let's say 192.168.0.10 for one of them and 192.168.0.20 for the other. As subnet mask you should use 255.255.255.0.You've turned of the Windows Firewall, do you have any third party firewalls?Also, to verify that you have a connection between the two try to ping from one machine to the other. Open the Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> "cmd") on the machine with ip-address 192.168.0.10 and type:ping 192.168.0.20What happens when you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiiQ Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 First of, since these computers are ONLY connected to each other you should either assign the ip-addresses your self (static) or install a DHCP-server on one of the machines (not recommended). I'd go for the static addresses, let's say 192.168.0.10 for one of them and 192.168.0.20 for the other. As subnet mask you should use 255.255.255.0.You've turned of the Windows Firewall, do you have any third party firewalls?Also, to verify that you have a connection between the two try to ping from one machine to the other. Open the Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> "cmd") on the machine with ip-address 192.168.0.10 and type:ping 192.168.0.20What happens when you do that?Hi. Thank you for your reply. I have manually set the IP-adresses and subnet masks. Yes, I have a third party firewall. I have tried pinging the other computer, I only get packet losses. I will try to turn off the firewall now. Let's see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiiQ Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Thank you! It really works. I feel such a new now :P Really, thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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