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LAN between 2 XP Home Computers
Computer #1 has XP Home and 2 on-board ethernet adapters,
each of which has been connected to the internet via cable modem while the other was connected to #2 via crossover cable. Computer #2 also has XP Home, and has been connected to #1 by two different brand new crossover cables. Both computers have had this trouble-shooting: - Manually configured network adapters to 100/full duplex. - Re-installed network adapters. - Removed all firewalls. - TCP/IP is the only protocol. - NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled on both. - There are shared files and drives. - TCP/IP has been reset. The network has been set up with/without ICS, and with/without a bridge, both many times. Neither computer can ping the other and they are not in the same subnet, unless I manually configure #2's IP address to be in #1's subnet. In that case, #1 can ping #2's IP address, but not its name, and #2 still can not ping #1. #1 always shows nothing in My Network Places, and is always unable to View Workgroup Computers. #2 always shows its own shared files and drives in My Network Places, and in View Workgroup Computers it always shows itself and sometimes shows computer #1's name and description, but can not access its files. When ICS is enabled on #1, its IPCONFIG shows "DHCP not enabled," and #2 gets "Destination host unreachable." They remain in different subnets. Here are the results of IPCONFIG /ALL for both before manually changing the address of #2. #1 - IP Configuration: Host name: Daddy Primary DNS suffix: [blank] Node type: unknown IP routing enabled: Yes WINS PRoxy enabled: No - Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5: Connection-DNS suffix: socal.rr.com Description: NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking adapter Physical address: 00-E0-18-DF-B2-A4 Dhcp enabled: Yes Autoconfiguration enabled: Yes IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DHCP server, DNS servers [2] are all given for my internet connection. Lease obtained: shows the next 24 hours. - Ethernet adapter Local ARea Connection 2: Connection-DNS suffix: [blank] Description: 3Com Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller Physical address: 00-26-54-08-19-E9 Dhcp enabled: No IP address: 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: [blank] #2 - IP configuration: Host name: Jonathan Primary DNS suffix: [blank] Node type: Unknown IP routing enabled: No WINS proxy enabled: No - Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-DNS suffix: [blank] Description: Realtek Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC Physical address: 00-20-18-8E-C2-73 Dhcp enabled: Yes Autoconfiguration enabled: Yes Autoconfiguraion IP address: 169.254.75.6 Subnet MAsk: 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway: [blank] I would appreciate any advice. Thank you! Dave (Same problem as posted on 3/15, 3/17, 3/21, and 3/24/03.) .. |
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