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Offline Meatwad

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« on: April 24, 2007, 06:55:13 PM »
What I am wanting to do is connect my desktop and my laptop together with a networking cable.

Both are running WinXP Pro SP2 and have zonealarm running. The desktop receives its net from an PCI networking card and has another cat5 port onboard (wanting to use that for pc to pc network.) The laptop is wireless but will be hardwired with cat5 for networking.  The router is a linksys with wireless, net is cable.

Both computers can see one another, but cannot "talk" to each other. Very high sent pings, but very very few received pings on either one. The desktop's network icon on the bottom right corner states "limited or no connectivity" for hardwired pc networking.

Details for the pc show an IP for the IP and subnet, but gateway, DNS, and WINS are blank.

What the heck is ol' meatwad doing wrong?
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2007, 07:03:33 PM »
did you try enabling "File Sharing" on both computers?
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2007, 07:33:20 PM »
Yep, no good.

As soon as you plug the cable in, it tries to find a network address between the two computers, but it apparently fails.
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2007, 08:30:15 PM »
Are both machines configured to be members of the same workgroup? Firewalls turned off?

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2007, 08:59:33 PM »
Irwink is on the right track.  Firewalls will mess up all kinds of networking.  The Linksys should provide for all your firewall needs on your home network, so turn off Zone Alarm.  Also, XP SP2 turns on the Windows firewall by default, so check to make sure it is not on.  Finally, check the Computer Name tab under My Computer/Properties and make sure the workgroup names match.

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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2007, 09:57:17 PM »
WOOO it works! :D


I didnt know linksys wireless routers had their own firewall built in. How secure is it?

I plan on tunning on my other firewalls anyway once im done transferring until I need it again
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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 06:03:39 AM »
Since you are trying to connect the ethernet ports together directly without a router in that path, you will have to use a cross-over ethernet cable, and you will have to manually assign IP addresses to those ports.

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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2007, 07:47:13 PM »
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Since you are trying to connect the ethernet ports together directly without a router in that path, you will have to use a cross-over ethernet cable, and you will have to manually assign IP addresses to those ports.

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Didnt have to in this case, both PC's communicate with each other flawlessly now
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