Yet Another Network Nightmare

[Hilary_Oldfield]

My partner bought himself a new PC and decided to network
our two PC's together so we could share files, printers
and the Broadband internet connection. He has used
a "cross cable", I upgraded to Windows XP Home Edition and
his PC was to be the Host and mine the Guest. We went
through the "Network Wizard" but the only thing that we
can share is the internet and not our PC's.

On the firewall we have allowed only each other access. We
have virtually done everything we can to see each other's
PC's, but to no avail. We have that much access to each
others PC's, it's unreal...

We even went through the Networking Diagnostics and that
comes up as "failed" connection between the two PC's and
yet we must be connected together for me to use the
internet.

We did manage to see each other's PC's on the network
group for all of a couple of minutes. We even managed to
share a file, again for only a couple of minutes.

We have been trying to get this sorted by ourselves for a
couple of weeks, but we have run out of all ideas.

Please.... can someone help.... ASAP....

 

[Nick Luck]

I had a similar problem. I am not sure how I resolved it but I did a number
of things. I disabled the internet firewall on both machines (I just use
Norton Firewall on the host nachine - the one connected to my DSL). I have
two NICs on the host and one on the client (my laptop). I also established
a log on for each machine (Iread in a newsgroup that this was required,
although I have since learned that you should enable "Simple File Sharing"
as an option in explorer, file options.

The other thing you must do is set the sharing correctly (right click on
files in explorer and select the sharing options). Enable reconnect at
logon.

IP adressing is the key process - I allowed windows to set mine but if you
start sharing internet connections it becomes a little more complex as I
believe you must have the same subnet on each machine but different IP
addresses. Oh - and in your user profiles, you must be on the same
workgroup (MSHOME as default)

I am not sure that this will help but there are plenty of really good users
on this NG (thanks to Moot for all of his help).

Hope this helps

Nick

 

[Guest]

there is a sequence you must obey first have the internet on then the router the cpu's then make
a network connection wizard this worked for my buddy