Switching from Cable internet access to home network

Hi all,
following my problem.
My computer is configured for internet access through
cable connection using a residential gateway.
In order to share informations between my pc and my
notebook, I linked them with an inverted ethernet cable.
I defined an home network, but the PC doesn't "sees" the
workgroup. When clicking on "entire network" it returns
an error that it didn't detected any network conection.
Int the other hand the notebook yet connects the the
workgoup, but it sees only itself.
I tried to configure both of them with ip addresses
10.10.10.1 and 2, and 192.168.0.2 and 3 with subnet masks
255.255.255.0, but it didn't helped any more.
I tried to connect my notebook to an other pc without
cable configuration and it worked.
Any tip?
Will adding a second NIC in my PC fix teh problem?
Will switching to IPX protocol fix the problem?

Thanks
Haim

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Carey

"haim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:277401c37a93$4be84400$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all,
> following my problem.
> My computer is configured for internet access through
> cable connection using a residential gateway.
> In order to share informations between my pc and my
> notebook, I linked them with an inverted ethernet cable.
> I defined an home network, but the PC doesn't "sees" the
> workgroup. When clicking on "entire network" it returns
> an error that it didn't detected any network conection.
> Int the other hand the notebook yet connects the the
> workgoup, but it sees only itself.
> I tried to configure both of them with ip addresses
> 10.10.10.1 and 2, and 192.168.0.2 and 3 with subnet masks
> 255.255.255.0, but it didn't helped any more.
> I tried to connect my notebook to an other pc without
> cable configuration and it worked.
> Any tip?
> Will adding a second NIC in my PC fix teh problem?
> Will switching to IPX protocol fix the problem?
>
> Thanks
> Haim

In article <277401c37a93$4be84400$(E-Mail Removed)>, "haim"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hi all,
>following my problem.
>My computer is configured for internet access through
>cable connection using a residential gateway.
>In order to share informations between my pc and my
>notebook, I linked them with an inverted ethernet cable.
>I defined an home network, but the PC doesn't "sees" the
>workgroup. When clicking on "entire network" it returns
>an error that it didn't detected any network conection.
>Int the other hand the notebook yet connects the the
>workgoup, but it sees only itself.
>I tried to configure both of them with ip addresses
>10.10.10.1 and 2, and 192.168.0.2 and 3 with subnet masks
>255.255.255.0, but it didn't helped any more.
>I tried to connect my notebook to an other pc without
>cable configuration and it worked.
>Any tip?
>Will adding a second NIC in my PC fix teh problem?
>Will switching to IPX protocol fix the problem?
>
>Thanks
>Haim

Don't switch to IPX! Adding another protocol to a Windows network is
more likely to cause problems than to fix them.

Assuming that you have a properly wired inverted (crossover) Ethernet
cable, it's possible that the two computers aren't able to
automatically configure compatible speed and duplex settings for the
network cards. Try explicitly configuring the network cards to use
the same settings, e.g. 100 Mb and full duplex.

However, I don't think that you need to disconnect the pc from the
residential gateway to network it with the notebook. I recommend
connecting both computers to the residential gateway, not to each
other. You can connect the notebook to the residential gateway in
either of these ways:

1. Inverted cable to uplink port on residential gateway, or:
2. Regular cable to regular port on residential gateway.
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