Please help. Trying PC-2-PC connection. Not workin

[kmfdmaddict]

I'm trying to connect my girlfriends computer to mine. Her computer has a built in ethernet card which is connected to our DSL modem. I added another card to connect to the network. I put in an identical card in my computer and connected them with a crossover cable.

I've set up TCP/IP with an IP of 192.168.0.x on each computer with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. I also set up IPX/SPX and NetBIOS on each of them. They are both on the same workgroup name. I tried to ping the secondary computer from the primary one and it timed out.

What am I doing wrong? I want to share files and internet to the secondary computer.

 

[jlanka]

you shouldn't need IPX/SPX, but anyway... Do the lights look good on the 2 NIC's? Also, PC with 192.168.0.2 can't ping PC with 192.168.0.3? Is that the situation? I'm still suspecting hardware. Also can they each ping 127.0.0.1?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[kmfdmaddict]

Well I know the card on mine works because I can hook the modem up and surf the net on my computer.

The one on hers is a diffrent story. I pulled it out of storage from about a year ago. The light is on and every once inawhile it flashes, as if it's transmitting data.

Both computers can ping the IP you listed.

 

[kmfdmaddict]

Oh. 192.168.0.1 can't ping 192.168.0.2.

There are only 2 computers. Hers, the one which I want to hook up the internet to, I assigned 192.168.0.1. Mine is 192.168.0.2.

 

[jlanka]

at this point I'd re-install TCP/IP. If it's xp. <A HREF="http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBJ/tip4700/rh4785.htm" target="_new">here</A> is how to do it. All other MS OS's can be uninstalled and reinstalled normally

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>