Crossover Mystery

davidacord

I have 2 computers connected with a crossover cable. The LAN is functioning but niether computer can see the other. When I go to My Network Places all I see is the local computer.

What Gives? They're in the same workgroup.

edcentric

What OS? Are you sure that they have permission to be seen?

primesuspect

Are they on the same subnet? Same IP block?

davidacord

XP and I clicked file and printer sharing on both and clicked share on the hard drive of each.

They both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet and I don't know what an IP block is. the dell is 198.168.1.2 the HP is 198.168.0.1

kryyst

davidacord wrote:

XP and I clicked file and printer sharing on both and clicked share on the hard drive of each.

They both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet and I don't know what an IP block is. the dell is 198.168.1.2 the HP is 198.168.0.1

Clearly you don't know what an IP block is. Those two IP's given that subnet can't talk to each other.

Set them to 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2

The key is that with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 the ip's have to be the same for the first three sets so xxx.xxx.xxx.yyy for your ip scheme.

primesuspect

Or make your subnet mask 255.255.0.0 for both machines - either way will work, although Kryyst's is the more "proper" solution.

davidacord

I fixed the IP block guessing that. 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 then I started a new workgroup.

kryyst

...and is it working now?