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Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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undefined Need help :o ... I have an XP Machine with an adsl modem BT Voyager 100 and another machine with XP. I am trying to link both machines with a crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards. I have Panda Antivirus installed in one computer (one with modem attached) and both machines have Zone Alarm 4 installed. I have tried setting up both systems with the Network Wizard and tried manually with no joy.. Both machines dont see either computer or connect to internet. I have searched many sites for answers...

I tried putting my main computers IP Address to 192.168.0.1 and the other 192.168.0.2 still nothing...what am i doing wrong... I even tried putting same IP Addresses in both computers under Realtek Properties to 192.168.0.1 and I get a yellow triangle???? :o

Can anyone give me a step by step layout on how to do this please :cry:
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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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Changed my host IP : 192.168.100.101 and the other to 192.168.100.102
Pinged both machines and they saw one another. The light is active on both Realtek Cards.

Still cant see Files/Folders or share internet connection :mad:

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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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Well you could save yourself a lot of grief by purchasing a $50 Linksys router and connecting them that way. But for starters, Zonealarm prevents the machines from seeing each other. That's it's job. Remove it from both computers. Remove any manual settings you put into any cards in both computers except the one that connects to your adsl modem. Reboot that machine and make sure you can get to the Internet with it. Then find your Realtec network connection on that computer and enable Internet connection sharing. Reboot your other computer, it should be able to get to the Internet. For the computers to SEE each other, you'll need to enable sharing on each computer.
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Well you could save yourself a lot of grief by purchasing a $50 Linksys router and connecting them that way. But for starters, Zonealarm prevents the machines from seeing each other. That's it's job. Remove it from both computers. Remove any manual settings you put into any cards in both computers except the one that connects to your adsl modem. Reboot that machine and make sure you can get to the Internet with it. Then find your Realtec network connection on that computer and enable Internet connection sharing. Reboot your other computer, it should be able to get to the Internet. For the computers to SEE each other, you'll need to enable sharing on each computer.

I agree 100 % why go through all of the hassle of trying to configure ICS? Go get a cheap DHCP/NAT enabled router. Allot easier to get the network operating that way. Just my 2 ยข
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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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In reply to bentkey: I uninstalled Zone Alarm in both machines and restarted the XP Machines....ran through the procedure with XP to setup network and now I cant ping the machines ???? what is going on.

Surely I must be able to see one machine at least.
When I pinged the machine the last time.. I couldnt see any files on either machine but when I tried to connect to the internet, it sayed detecing proxy settings on status bar then couldnt connect.

Do I have to put in any info in DNS or Gateway in Properties of the cards?
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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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Forgot to mention while I uninstalled Zonealarm in my main computer (adsl) I got 3 viruses from the same worm W32/Spidjy.A.worm :cry: ....

Which are now fixed :cheesy: ..... which Panda AV
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Well, you're using xp, so make sure the firewall feature is disabled on the realtec network interfaces on each machine. Were you able to connect to the Internet OK from the host machine? I assume this machine has 2 network cards in it. It should be able to get out regardless of what you do with the other interface and the other computer. You can do an IPCONFIG /all command from the command prompt on each machine and let me know what they say. Be specific. ICS should use the DNS information it gets from the Internet connected Interface, which you haven't said, but I believe is probably automatic.
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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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yes, the think most people forget is to disable teh MICROSOFT firewall on the network cards.. then is done in the network adapter properties.. and click advanced.

run the ICS on the computer with the internet connection.

turn off zonealarm (tempararily) to check that its working ok..

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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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I have uninstalled the Realtek Card from host machine and have tried it with the onboard Lan. I have used the setup network wizard in both machines and allconfig/all

Displayed this:

Windows IP Configuration
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HOST MACHINE

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : DOMAIN
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . : No

PPP adapter BT Broadband:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 81.1..........
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . .. : 81.1..........
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.........
194.7......
Ethernet Adaptor K2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Description : VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address : 00-0B-6A-2B-AD-46
Dhcp Enabled : No
IP Address : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway :
Netbios over TCPip : Disabled

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2 ND MACHINE

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . : No

Ethernet Adapter

Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Description : Realtek RTL8319 Family PCI Ethernet Card
Physical Address : 00-E0-4C-A8-EB-A5
Dhcp Enabled : Yes
Autoconfiguration : Yes
IP Address : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway :
DhCP Server : 255.255.255.255
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Re: Networking 2 XP Machines with crossover cable and 2 Realtek Cards

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In the services.msc (through run command)... I changed some settings when I first got Broadband, would any of these settings stop me from networking?...If so which ones do I leave active.
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