help with crossover plz

There seams to be no functional DHCP server on your little LAN...
Assign each machine a static IP on the LAN.
Put both in the same workgroup.
Assign resource sharing.
File sharing will work just fine.


Read up on Networking basics, IP's, their assignments, and Internet sharing///

errm how do i assign resource sharing ?
i had done all the rest most of it i got xp to set up everything from chosing one server as host with internet connection the other computer as connects with internet through second computer ..... i get this msg when i click on "view network computers" on both comps ... "HOME is not accessible, you might not have permissions to use this network source" btw "HOME" is what i labeled the network name of the computers
could someone plz go into detail of what can fix this as i dont have the money to go out and waste on an ethernet hub when it should be an easy process of connecting 2 computers by crossover  
p.s. i had also done the ip giving each comp same ip's but last digits 1 different number and subnet mask to 255:255:255:0 on both

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Chro on 03/16/03 07:18 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

On each machine go to Start->Run->cmd and then type ipconfig and tell us what each machine's IP and Subnet Mask are.

Also, do you have link light on the network adapters? And, you don't need to disable the 2nd ethernet adapter, just leave it unplugged.