Re: Cross over cable networking connection

From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:30:52 -0500

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"Patrick" <patl@reply.newsgroup.msn.com> wrote in message 
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>I have linked up 2 Windows XP machines together using a cross over cable 
>(and the connection is working in that I could remote-desktop from one 
>machine on to another).  However, I am interested to know how I could share 
>the following amonst the 2 computers
> 1) Internet Connnection (with a USB Broadband modem on 1 of the PC)
> 2) Files/printers on both PCs by both PCs
>
> Looking at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814985 , I believe that setup 
> enable one-way sharing only, right?  How could I make the sharing both 
> ways, so the USB modem and files/printers to be shared could be moved from 
> one PC to the other with no re-configuration?
>
> TCP/IP of LAN connections currently set up as follows:
> 1) PC1
> 1.1) IP 10.11.2.1
> 1.2) subnet mask- 255.255.255.0
> 1.3) default gateway- 10.11.2.2
> 1.4) Workstation Name: PC1
> 1.5) Workgroup Name: HOME
>
> 2) PC2
> 2.1) IP 10.11.2.2
> 2.2) subnet mask- 255.255.255.0
> 2.3) default gateway- 10.11.2.1
> 2.4) Workstation Name: PC2
> 2.5) Workgroup Name: HOME
>
> Observations
> 1) On PC2, when I try to browse to \\10.11.2.1, it asks me for a username 
> defaulting to PC1\guest (even with Guest account enabled on PC1 and 
> password set/entered correctly, it wont let me in).
> 2) On PC2, if I try to map to \\10.11.2.1 , logging on as PC1\AnyAdminUser 
> it won't let me in either
> 3) It takes a long time to browse the workgroup
> 3) On PC2, it takes a long time to browse list of computers in HOME 
> workgroup, only PC2 is listed
> 4) On PC1, there is an error saying resources not available and no 
> workstations are listed
> 5) On PC1, it complained \\10.11.2.1 is not available when I try to browse 
> to \\10.11.2.1
>
> Question- anything else I need to do to get Internet Connection shared 
> (Besides taking the box on to enable it on the PC with USB Broadband modem 
> installed)
>
> Furthermore, how could I configure the above if one of the PC is a Windows 
> 98 ?
>
>

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