connecting two pc`s together?

Clifftop

Posted September 28, 2007

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Posted September 28, 2007

No XP and Vista are compatable.

You need to connect the cross-over cable to your network ports. Making sure the ports are enabled and the drivers loaded.

Then give your XP machine an I/P address 192.168.1.1 and a sub net mask of 255.255.255.0 and a computer name eg:HOME

Then on your laptop I/P address of 192.168.1.2 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and a computer name of eg:LAPTOP

You could use server assigned i/P addresses and DHCP but i find this a pain when you want both PC`s to use the internet at the same time.

Thanks melpen, will give it a try.

Cheers Fred

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Updated 7/3/09

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