Dell Inspiron 1200 to 2200 via crossover cable? help

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I plugged a crossover cable into my new Dells Inspiron 1200 and 2200
hoping they could communicate.

The lights light over the RJ45 jacks and flash, and each end
transmits packets but receives zero packets, according to the
status page.

The 1200 seems satisfied, the 2200 says ``limited connectivity''
but neither end receives packets.

I've been in and out of the so-called Wizard, clicked Repair,
turned off firewalls (two on each end, the windows one and
Symantec on the 1200 and PC-cillin on the 2200), and have gotten
nowhere further.

Windows XP with current updates, new laptops (July and October).

What do I do next?
 
Ron said:
I plugged a crossover cable into my new Dells Inspiron 1200 and 2200
hoping they could communicate.

The lights light over the RJ45 jacks and flash, and each end
transmits packets but receives zero packets, according to the
status page.

The 1200 seems satisfied, the 2200 says ``limited connectivity''
but neither end receives packets.

I've been in and out of the so-called Wizard, clicked Repair,
turned off firewalls (two on each end, the windows one and
Symantec on the 1200 and PC-cillin on the 2200), and have gotten
nowhere further.

Windows XP with current updates, new laptops (July and October).

What do I do next?
Click to expand...

Solution :

Manually create IP addresses on each end
say 192.1.1.1 and 192.1.1.2
Control Panel
Network Connections
Local Area Connection
Internet Protocol
Properties
Use the following IP address
192.1.1.1 and 2
Subnet Mask
255.0.0.0

Disable all firewalls

Enable File Sharing on My Documents at both ends

Then I can find the other machine's My Documents at My Network Places.

If I connect to the actual Internet, I first reenable all the firewalls
that I turned off, and unshare the My Documents.

As far as I can see, the firewalls don't let me distinguish modem
traffic (which I want firewalled) from crossover-cable traffic
(which I don't).

God knows how you're supposed to set it up to arrange that.
 
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