Problems connecting comupters

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Have two computers, one running XP Media Center, one running XP Home. I
had successfully connected then with an ethernet crossover cable once
before but now can't seem to get things to work. One of them shows the
message "Acquiring Network Address" and the other shows "limited or no
connectivity" on the LAN icon.

I know I changed some things under Administrative Tools>services at
some point on one of the comptuers, but now have almost everything set
to either automatic or manual, still no success.

I've run the network wizard on both computers with no luck.

Any suggestions how to get these computers talking to each other again?

Thanks
 
Tried un/reinstalling the network devices on both computers. Still same
problem.

On one computer where the icon constantly shows "acquiring network
address", when double clicking the icon, under support it shows
"invalid IP address" with IP address of 0.0.0.0

I assume this could be at the heart of my problem?

How do I assign it a valid address?
 
Ben said:
Aloha (e-mail address removed),

Do you have a device (like a Linksys switch) that might be running DHCP and
giving out addresses?
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Don't think so. I have two computers with ethernet ports.
What's the IP address of your OTHER machine?
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It does show an IP address, but not sure if posting it here would cause
a security issue.

When I first tried this several months ago, they linked up just fine.
Not sure what the problem is now.
 
Don't think so. I have two computers with ethernet ports.


It does show an IP address, but not sure if posting it here would
cause a security issue.
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You mean like this one:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.235.39.69
 
Don't think so. I have two computers with ethernet ports.


It does show an IP address, but not sure if posting it here would cause
a security issue.
Click to expand...

If machine A is directly connected to machine B and neither machine
is connected to an outside source, you do not need to worry about
security, at least from the outside world. Since switches are so
cheap I have never had to do what you are attempting. Last
switch I bought was $10 new at Staples. Makes networking a
lot easier.

later.....
 
Aloha (e-mail address removed),
Don't think so. I have two computers with ethernet ports.
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Directly connected to each other? Then give each a static IP address such
as:

192.168.1.1

and

192.168.1.2

with each having a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

I guess you can give each the default gateway address of the other one, though
it hardly matters since they don't connect to anything but each other.
It does show an IP address, but not sure if posting it here would
cause a security issue.
Click to expand...

Not if they don't connect to anything else.


-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
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Ben said:
Directly connected to each other? Then give each a static IP address such
as:

192.168.1.1

and

192.168.1.2

with each having a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
Click to expand...

Okay, did it. But while both network icons indicate "connected", there
still doesn't seem to be any data transfer between them. I don't see
the shared hard drives indicated on either computer.
 
Okay, did it. But while both network icons indicate "connected", there
still doesn't seem to be any data transfer between them. I don't see
the shared hard drives indicated on either computer.
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Also encountering another issue. After I doing that I keep getting some
"Winhost 32 has encountered a problem and needs to close" or something
to that effect and my internet connection gets borked. So, I've set it
back to automatic, which puts me back where I was before. Still can't
get these computers to talk to each other.
 
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