Problem networking XP with twisted pair

[flip]

Hi;

Trying to setup two XP Home machines (laptop to PC).
Have ADSL router set up on both already. Have normal network cards for the normal network using TCP IP and Twisted pair Cat 5 cable. The PC network card is only a 10 and the laptop 100.

The PC registers the laptop in Network Connections, but the laptop only sees itself. Pinging the address I set up gets a time out with no success.

I can remember doing something similar with two other machines using twisted pair cable and getting no connection, yet on a setup with normal cable and a router the same machines were fine.

I've come to the point where I think it must be something to do with using the twisted pair cable.



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[Greenstead]

I am a bit unclear what you have set up.

You have two PCs and an ADSL router.
The two PCs - how are they connected to the router ?

Why are you connecting the PCs to each other directly?

If you have to connect the two PCs directly you need a cross-over cable.

[flip]

Thanks for the reply;

They were already linked to the ADSL modem/router by seperate network cards and cable.

I'm using a crossover cable on the newly setup second set of network cards that I can't get to work properly. The reason for this setup separate to the ADSL is for a normal printer/file sharing network between these two machines.

The ADSL has been setup by the phone company and I don't want to interfere with it if I can help it as I don't know much about it (eg can you run file sharing using the ADSL modem/router).

I have unique TCP IP addresses (142.104.57.7 142.104.57.6) and on the second network I'm trying to set up as automatic addressing didn't work. Also subnets are the same. As mentioned pinging came back with no result.

Thanks,



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[Greenstead]

Why are you using two internet IP addresses ? Do you pay more for the 2nd address ? Are you providing some service to the internet, e.g. web server or FTP server ? Or do you just browse the web and download.

Anyway, for your PC to PC connection. (Don't make any changes to the NICs connected to the router).
Heres a checklist to run thro to enable PCs to share resources:
Note : You only need one protocol (NetBT = Netbios over TCP/IP)
- Both PCs have TCP/IP instBothed.
- Both PCs have Netbios over TCP/IP enabled.
- Both PCs have the same workgroup.
- Both PCs have a unique computer name.
- Both PCs have network shares defined directly under c:.
- Both NICS are on the same subnet (typicBothy IP 192.168.0.* subnet 255.255.255.0).
- MS Client and file & printer sharing are checked on each NIC.
- Both NICs have their node type = broadcast or Hydrid (check with Ipconfig /Both).
- XP's ICF firewall is permanently disabled.
- Both 3rd party firewBoths are disabled (until connection is working).

[flip]

Thanks!

It was the Zone Alarm causing the problem... Even though it had asked for and been given "permission" to use the network card etc.

:)

[Greenstead]

OK- good to hear all works now.