Trouble Networking 2 Win XP with Crossover Cable!

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Rod M

This is driving me nuts, I'm new to this sort of thing...

I have a notebook and a desktop, both running Windows XP Professional.
I want to simply connect them with a crossover cable.

I put in the correct IPs and subnet mask and enabled file sharing on
both C: drives. I can't see the other computer in 'My network places'
on either computer. I've went through the Network Wizard a number of
times.

The only thing I've been able to accomplish is managing to share a
dial up internet connection from my notebook to my desktop, but I
still can't swap files between the two.

What is the correct procedure for doing this? Are there some settings
that I should check out?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rod
 
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Steve Winograd [MVP]

This is driving me nuts, I'm new to this sort of thing...

I have a notebook and a desktop, both running Windows XP Professional.
I want to simply connect them with a crossover cable.

I put in the correct IPs and subnet mask and enabled file sharing on
both C: drives. I can't see the other computer in 'My network places'
on either computer. I've went through the Network Wizard a number of
times.

The only thing I've been able to accomplish is managing to share a
dial up internet connection from my notebook to my desktop, but I
still can't swap files between the two.

What is the correct procedure for doing this? Are there some settings
that I should check out?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rod

1. Permanently disable XP's built-in Internet Connection Firewall on
local area network connections -- it's for use only on a direct modem
connection to the Internet. Disable and un-install all other
firewalls while troubleshooting. Details here:

Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/ic_firewall.htm

2. Use only one protocol for File and Printer Sharing. If the network
needs more than one protocol, unbind File and Printer Sharing from all
but one of them. Details here:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm

3. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/netbt.htm

4. Run "ipconfig /all" on XP and look at the "Node Type" at the
beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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