On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:05:01 -0700, "gajus" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
>first of all i have to excuse my bad english but i'm a german policeofficer and the days, i had my last english-lesson are far far in the past :-)
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>so i'll do my best:
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>i have two xp-home- computers linked with a crosslinkcable.
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>the network worked for weeks very well, the first printed my documents on the printer of the second und gaming was possible without any problems.
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>after having a hardwareproblem with the cable, the second pc was not much longer able to find the first one.
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>on the first i'm still able to see the other in the workgroup, but i can't open it in any way.
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>so i read a bit in the internet...
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>i changed the fitted IP-adress and the subnetmask of the first to
>IP 192.169.0.1
>subnetmask 255.255.255.0
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>and the second to
>IP 192.169.0.2
>subnet 255.255.255.0
>but there was't any change of status!
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>i even changed the file HOSTS in c:\windows and added the IP-adresses of the two pc... same thing, nothin' works!
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>pinging the second by the first pc is getting abborted by timeout and in the other direction it's the same.
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>so i recovered all the settings to the old status and recovered pc one (on the second the recoveryoption was turned off) to about four weeks in the past...
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>the result was, that my system was so weired, i couldn't even found my games but that was not the great problem...
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>i don't have any further ideas of what i can do now.
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>can anybody help me?
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>maybe it's a problem with the hardware but the systeminformations tell me, that everything's allright..
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>thank's in front of all
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>gajus
Gajus,
Please describe in a bit of detail what was the hardware problem with the cable,
and what you did to resolve the problem.
From each computer:
1) Ping itself by ip address.
2) Ping 127.0.0.1.
And report result of all 4 tests.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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