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by rdnck264

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HI, I NEED SOME HELP WITH A NETWORK PROBLEM. I HAVE TO COMPUTERS THAT I WANNA LINK TOGETER AND MAKE A NETWORK WITH A CAT5 CROSSOVER CABLE. BOTH A RUNNING WINDOWS XP PRO. I HAVE CONNECTED THE COMPUTERS AND IT SAYS LOCAL AREA NETWORK IS NOW CONNECTED (WHICH I GUESS IS GOOD) BUT HOW DO I DO FILE TRANFERS,COPIES,REMOTE DESKTOP, AND FILE SHARING? WHAT DO I DO NOW HOW DO I SET UP THE NETWORK HOW CAN IT BE DONE??

-THANKS

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by obiwaynekenobi

If I'm not mistaken you need to enable File and Print sharing on each to be able to see/access them. There should be a network setup wizard in XP that sets it up.. not 100% sure. ONce that's set up then you should be able to see each computer via My Network Places. Remember that you need a local account on both machines to be able to access them, though.

I can't help you with Remote Desktop.. I haven't gotten to that part of my Windows XP exam guide yet ;) But I think you need to have that crappy Windows Messenger enabled and you can send it through that (or through email?).

by hal 9000

A drive or partition as well. because the network needs a shared component on it.

As far a s remote desktops go I wouldn't bother as they have proven to be more trouble than what they are worth no matter what M$ says.

Col

by hereinoz

Sounds like what he needs, Col, is a good local IT bloke to come around, sort it out in 30 minutes, and leave him with a properly set up and functional network. :-)

Alan

by tomsal

Remote Desktop works excellent. You don't need anything to be sent through email or messenger for remote desktop, you simply configure each Win XP box for remote desktop and then simply connect. Its cake. We use it nearly every day to save us from going from floor to floor helping our XP users with minor issues.

Remote assistance is the thingy that you need to send an invite through email or messenger. Now THAT is a piece of worthless steaming crapola.

;)

But anyway I digress, like the other folks said in this thread...you need to have a drive, folder, file SOMETHINE (whatever it is you want to share) shared first; before anyone can access.

XP has a decent (though not perfect) help system. Press F1 and then do some searching on what you need help on.

by maher

hi there I hop my answer it good you have to go c drive propreteis sharing & scurity and maik sharing file olso you most check in LOCAL AREA NETWORK propreteis advanced dont protect your pc or network con

by chache17

I hope this is what you need.

Open control panel and go to network connections. Click the link "Set up a home or small office network" on the network tasks, then the Network Setup Wizard appears and it should be easy to follow. Make sure you type different Computer names for each machine and exactly the same Workgroup name.

You will surely need to restart.

After that is done go to network connections and open properties for each local area connection. Make sure "File and Printer sharing" is installed.

Start sharing folders or whatever you want. Wait for the list to refresh on the other machine, since shares are not refreshed in a workgroup environment as fast as in a domain.

If you have problems, then you should check for TCP/IP connectivity. Setting the IP configuration manually is usually a good starting point. Make sure you can ping each computer from the other.

G-luck !

by paul

In the following I will list all the necessary steps for a clean and reliable setup of a 2PC-Network. All steps have to be done for both computers:

1.Verify that the link LED is lighted on both network cards (NICs)

2.RightClick the Workplace Icon on your desktop. Chose Properties/ComputerName and click the ChangeButton. Give the computer a unique name, e.g. PC01 and PC02 resp. Chose the same Workgroup for both computers, e.g. MyNetwork and quit the SystemProperties by clicking OK.

3.Now RightClick the Network Neighborhood Icon and chose Properties. DoubleClick the NIC and Click Properties. Then go to the Properties of the TCP/IP protocol and define a unique ip address for each NIC, i.e. 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 resp. The subnet mask for that address range must be 255.0.0.0. The Standard Gateway field is left blank, because there is no gateway in this arrangement. Both DNS fields are left blank also.

4.As a last step make a share (partition or directory) on both computers. Optionally you can define different access rights for the two computer shares.

That?s all about it

Remark: As I'm working with the German version of Win XP some designations may not be absolutely correct.

by bcgreaves

By default, your C drive is shared as a hidden drive and you can connect to anyones C drive that does not have any settings on it by going to the Run command and typing in: \\"computer name"\C$ You don't have to have a user name and password for this action, but File and Printer Sharing must be enabled. Hope this helps.

by makely67

give them IP addresses of the same class,put them under the same workgroup and make sure the drives that you want to access are shared,that should do it. Polly

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