Hey Guys
in a nutsell.Ive connected two household desktop machines running windows xp. Ive networked the two machine with a crossover gave them IP addresses ie 192.9.200.20 and 192.9.200.21(their random)Both link speeds are the same 10mbps(full)Ive changed it to different links speeds also.Anyways Ive disabled all firewalls.The thing is theres no access from one machine to the other.i get packets send and received,I can ping the addresses successfully but can access them.
Wot do I do wrong,Any ideas
thanks in advance
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Have you set up sharing on your files? You also need to do that with the printers.
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thanks for the help
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