networking without sharing an internet connection

[Suzanne]

Hello
We have to pc's, both running XP Pro and both with their own seperate cable
connections. (seperate lines, modems etc)
We want to network them but not share the internet connections. We were
going to use vpn or remote desktop but our isp has ports 23 and 80 blocked,
so now I'm just not sure what to do.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Suzanne

[CheshireCat]

"Suzanne" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
> We have to pc's, both running XP Pro and both with their own seperate
cable
> connections. (seperate lines, modems etc)
> We want to network them but not share the internet connections. We were
> going to use vpn or remote desktop but our isp has ports 23 and 80
blocked,
> so now I'm just not sure what to do.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Suzanne
>
>
If you want to connect to each other directly rather than through the WAN
you'll need separate nic cards on each and a crossover cable between the 2
(or a wireless one on each pc running in adhoc mode). You'd then set up a
network manually giving each pc its own static IP address eg 192.168.0.1 and
192.168.0.2 mask 255.255.255.0 for these new nics. Set the gateway and dns
values (on the nics) to the same value as their own IP address. That should
force the internet connections to stick with their respective machine.
Re remote desktop, you don't necessarily have to use port 80 . Please read
the following linked article
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/northrup/03may16.asp

[Bob]

Why pay for 2 internet connections. Get a router and drop on of the cable bills. The router hides your internal network and will allow you to share resources between the 2 computers. The vpn and the Remote desktop soultions are too involved and not the way
to go for your situstion.

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Suzanne wrote:

> We have t[w]o pc's, both running XP Pro and both with their own seperate cable
> connections. (seperate lines, modems etc)
> We want to network them but not share the internet connections. We were
> going to use vpn or remote desktop but our isp has ports 23 and 80 blocked,
> so now I'm just not sure what to do.

You could map drives from one to the other like so:

\\x.x.x.x\sharename

but I recommend you do this only if you use a firewall such as ZoneAlarm
or Kerio/Tiny to protect your NetBIOS/SMB shares and prevent others from
sending you RPC messages or accessing your shares.


--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security