problems networking win xp with win 2k

[frustrated]

I got a new laptop for christmas :D and I've been trying to network it with my old desktop using a crossover cable. The laptop runs windows xp and the desktop is running windows 2000. I've used the wizard in xp an got nowhere. Can somebody help me. I just want to transfer some files from the old desktop to my new laptop. Thanks in advance.

[vothweirdon]

Should be fairly straight forward. Both machines need an IP address (if you don't have a router and not on the net anything will do)

On the XP side, go into your network properties and right click and do properties of you network, click on IP and put in 192.168.1.10

On the 2000 side do the same thing but put in 192.168.1.20

(From START/RUN)
Now, if you want to access the 2000 machine put in \\192.168.1.20\c$ (gives you admin access to the whole C drive) or you can share the directory you want and access by \\192.168.1.20\sharename

Same thing the other way, from 2000 you would access the share by \\192.168.1.10\sharename

You can also map the a drive the same way.

Voth Weirdon

[frustrated]

ok I tried that and it still didn't work. I also tried setting up netbeui over tcp/ip and still got nowhere. The computers each say that the cable is disconnected when the other one is turned off. And when the computer is turned back on the disconnected cable message goes away. Thanks for your help.

[vothweirdon]

The machines will say cable disconnected when you turn one machine off (it no longer sees the network card because it is effectively disconnected)

go to START/RUN and type in CMD then type in IPCONFIG /ALL and see what you get from each machine you should get something like the following:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-39-70-F
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.10
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
0.0.0.0
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0

On your second machine it should be identical except for the IP Address which should be a 192.168.1.20

If you have that then you should be able to go to START/RUN type in CMD then type in PING 192.168.1.10
you should recieve something like this:

Pinging 192.168.1.10 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.10: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms


Do that for both IP's (this means your talking to the machine and talking to the other machine) if you get this, you are talking. Then you will need to share the files you want to access. From the other machine \\192.168.1.10\sharename (or 20 depending on the machine you are sharing from)

In my first message I forgot to tell you to make sure the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 for both machines.

Voth