What's the Catch Mapping Thru a Crossover Cable

[stringrazor]

I have two XP Pro SP2 machines, desktop & laptop both have gigabit NICs
but my hub/router is only 100mbps. When I want to move very large
files, I connect via crossover cable. I had previously been able to map
drives but now I can't. I can ping and even connect via RDP. I wound up
using a mapping through RDP to do the transfer last night but why does
a normal NET USE or map in Explorer from one to the other using Auto IP
or static addrs give ERROR 53 NETWORK PATH NOT FOUND? I'm logged on as
a local admin (same ID/pw) on both machines. I try to map like this:
net use x: \\10.1.1.1\c$ (or any other non-admin share). I have tried
explicitly enabling NETBIOS over TCP/IP with no effect. I obviously
have a good connection if I can RDP. Firewalls are disabled. What am I
missing?


Gary
- embarrassed to admin to an Win2k3 MCSE -

 

[Guest]

Almost certainly that the computers pick-up an IP address by DHCP if the
router is present, but use the "Windows default range" when not.

A change in IP address confuses netbios for a while, typically about fifteen
minutes before it sorts itself out.

Workarounds are to map by IP address, and/or to use fixed IP addrsesses.

Or, try issuing NBTSTAT -R (R is case sensitive) at a command-prompt. This
may refresh the link.

 

[stringrazor]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it didn't help:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping 169.254.66.103

Pinging 169.254.66.103 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 169.254.66.103: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 169.254.66.103: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 169.254.66.103: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 169.254.66.103: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 169.254.66.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net use x: \\169.254.66.103
System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>NBTSTAT -R
Successful purge and preload of the NBT Remote Cache Name Table.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net use x: \\169.254.22.103
System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.