Live Connection Shown but no communicate between computers

[AAdlan]

Hi, I have one Desktop PC with a USB wireless card 802.11b and Laptop with a PCIM wireless card 802.11b both different brands.

After playing around all day with the settings all i have managed is to get a live connection between the two but they are still not communicating(file sharing etc.). I have followed the advice on this page extensively with no real improvements.

[URL=http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/adhoc_setup.htm]

What I mean by no communication is that under "wireless network connection" there is a Status of connection between the two under the same network name, under sent packets there is 64 but under recieved there is 0 on both. (this is the same problem i get when i use an ethernet cable to connect two laptops together i usually get round this by manual inserting ip addresses which seems to work, im not sure why it works though, however even this doesnt work with the wireless cards.)

The two automatically obtained ip addresses are as follows
169.254.172.177
169.254.186.143

The Ping of the automatically obtained ip addresses, obtain by using command prompt, are

4 packets sent 4 recieved on both 0 lost


The outcome i am trying to get to is the ability to viewed shared folders, run programs over the network and access the desktops internet from my laptop.

I am extermely baffled as to what to do an what welcome any sort of advice.

Cheers

AADLAN :confused:

PS I have incidentely fully updated my version of WinXp as i understand the Wireless options are improved in the new service pack.

[JackMDS]

IP numbers 169.xxx.xxx.xxx means that there is No assignment of functional Network IPs.

These are Default IPs that windows assigned when there is communication.

Unfortunately it is Not clear how your Network is configured, thus not possible to help you.

What type of Internet?

Do you have a Wireless Router?

I do not if the following applies and might help, but you can try.

Link to: Wireless - Basic Configuration. (http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html)

Link to: Wireless Security. (http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html)

:cool:

[AAdlan]

Thanx for the reply, i have no wireless router, basically all i am trying to achieve is a direct wireless connection between my laptop and my desktop so that i can share files and eventually the internet connection, my laptop has a PCIM card and my desktop has a usb wireless network card. I created an AdHoc network which both computers can detect and say they are connected to however if i go in to network places no shared folders are there.

Just let me know if you need any more precise information about my network

Thanx

AADLAN

ps ive changed the ip addresses to 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.2 ping shows 4 sent 0 recieved

[Greenstead]

If the desktop has an internet connection then you must roll this into the setup for the PCs.

You should follow this guide:
http://practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

The fact that the PCs are wireless makes no difference. Just make sure they have the same SSID.