Cable between two PCs

I have a modem on pc#1 plus one onboard ehternet plug and one pci ehternet
card. I also have XP proffesional edition on pc#1. On pc#2 I have one
ethernet onboard plug and XP Home edition. I have a cable that connects both!
I want a connection between the two pcs, but they do not see each other. I
troubleshooted with windows help and support on the computer, but it did not
help! Can somebody PLEASE help me resolve this problem!

P.S. I am DESPIRIT!

You need a cross-over cable if you are using the ethernet ports and then you
need to setup the ethernet on each PC with addresses, etc.


Herman-Peter Cook wrote:

> I have a modem on pc#1 plus one onboard ehternet plug and one pci ehternet
> card. I also have XP proffesional edition on pc#1. On pc#2 I have one
> ethernet onboard plug and XP Home edition. I have a cable that connects
> both! I want a connection between the two pcs, but they do not see each
> other. I troubleshooted with windows help and support on the computer, but
> it did not help! Can somebody PLEASE help me resolve this problem!
>
> P.S. I am DESPIRIT!

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"Herman-Peter Cook" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> It looks like your email does not work! Here is the message:
>
>
> What is a cross over cable? Is it the cable they told me about that I have
> to use between modem and ehternet port?
>
> How do I set up the addresses? Are you talking about the IP and DNS? If
> so,
> I have gone into command prompt and typed in ipconfig, but I got no IP
> adress
> on either pcs! Should I put any IP adress that I can think off? Or must
> the
> pc tell me which IP I must use?
>
>
> "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
>
>> You need a cross-over cable if you are using the ethernet ports and then
>> you
>> need to setup the ethernet on each PC with addresses, etc.
>>
>>
>> Herman-Peter Cook wrote:
>>
>> > I have a modem on pc#1 plus one onboard ehternet plug and one pci
>> > ehternet
>> > card. I also have XP proffesional edition on pc#1. On pc#2 I have one
>> > ethernet onboard plug and XP Home edition. I have a cable that connects
>> > both! I want a connection between the two pcs, but they do not see each
>> > other. I troubleshooted with windows help and support on the computer,
>> > but
>> > it did not help! Can somebody PLEASE help me resolve this problem!
>> >
>> > P.S. I am DESPIRIT!
>>
>> --
>> Brett I. Holcomb
>> (E-Mail Removed)
>> Remove R777 to email
>>

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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:06:57 -0500, "Admiral Q"
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>Google is your friend!

And Usenet is your enemy!

Herman-Peter Cook wrote:
> I have a modem on pc#1 plus one onboard ehternet plug and one pci ehternet
> card. I also have XP proffesional edition on pc#1. On pc#2 I have one
> ethernet onboard plug and XP Home edition. I have a cable that connects both!
> I want a connection between the two pcs, but they do not see each other. I
> troubleshooted with windows help and support on the computer, but it did not
> help! Can somebody PLEASE help me resolve this problem!
>
> P.S. I am DESPIRIT!

I hope you have resolved this by now. If not, the first thing to do is
to get a cross over cable, as another response mentioned. This is an
ethernet cable which you will probably need to buy, unless one came
with the PCI card. It is NOT an ordinary patch cable, you have to
specify that you want a CROSSOVER cable. This plugs into an ethernet
jack on the two computers. I don't think you will get anywhere trying
to plug a cable from your modem into another computer's ethernet jack.
Once you have the right cable plugged in to the right spots, I think
that running the Network Connection Wizard will do the rest. The only
other catch is whether both the ethernet connections on your XP
Professional computer are working. Do you have two connections,
perhaps, because the onboard ethernet connection stopped working?

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:34:00 -0800, Herman-Peter Cook
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It looks like your email does not work! Here is the message:
>
>
>What is a cross over cable? Is it the cable they told me about that I have
>to use between modem and ehternet port?

Just go to Best Buy and get one. But to explain what it is:

A crossover cable is an ethernet cable that has two pairs of wires crossed
on one end. This is opposed to most ethernet cables which are straight
through.

The easy what to think of it is like a phone. Straight through would be
like both phone's ear-pieces being wired directly to each other, and the
same with both microphones. Can't have a conversation that way.

A crossover cable sends your transmit wire to the other PC's receive wire
and vice versa. Normally, using hubs, routers and such, the intermediate
device will handle crossing over the signals, so they use straight cables.

>How do I set up the addresses? Are you talking about the IP and DNS? If so,
>I have gone into command prompt and typed in ipconfig, but I got no IP adress
>on either pcs! Should I put any IP adress that I can think off? Or must the
>pc tell me which IP I must use?

Check the network properties for the NIC on each PC. Right-click Network
Neighborhood, right-click the network adaptor in each PC, and double-click
on "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties". You can use any IP address
scheme you choose. But to make it simple, set one device to 192.168.1.1,
and the other to 192.168.1.2. Use a Subnet Mask of 255.255.255.000 for
both.

I'm sitting in front of a server right now, so things aren't precisely the
same. XP Home has a network setup wizard that can help you through all of
this.