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crossover cable file sharing troubles

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by bonfireofbunnies

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im having trouble sharing files between two computers using a crossover cable (something is screwed on the old windows 98 and it wont read flash drives and other external hard drives) my windows xp computer detects the connection when i plug in the crossover cable but it says there is an error because "the network did not assign a network address to the computer" any suggestions?

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by rob miners

Be sure that both computers are logged in to Windows with an Account on each with the same Logon ID.
Connect each end of the cat5 crossover cables in to the network cards of each computer.

In order for both PC's to be able to communicate together, the Ethernet adapters will need to be configured with a static IP address and a common Subnet mask. As an example, assign one PC an IP address of 192.168.0.1 and assign the second PC an IP address of 192.168.0.2. Both machines should use the Subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Here's how to configure your Network Card: Go to Start, Control Panel, Network Connections and right click your Local Area Connection and select Properties. Scroll the list for the entry titled: Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Click the entry and select Properties. Under the General tab, tick the box titled: Use the following IP address. Enter the IP address and Subnet mask that you would like to use.

Repeat the steps above for the second computer system.
Be sure that both PC's have a common workgroup name of 15 characters or less. Here's how: Go to Start, Control Panel and System. Select the Computer Name tab. Click the Change button. Change the Workgroup name. Repeat these instructions on the second computer ensuring that both computers are named exactly the same.
Reboot both computer systems.

Next, open a command prompt on one of the computers by going to Start,Run and Type in cmd and press Enter or click OK.

Type in ping 192.168.0.2 (if you are using the computer assigned with 192.168.0.01) press Enter.
Four TTL replies to your ping should be indicated. eg:TTL=128

Note: If you receive a "timed out" message when attempting to ping your selected IP address. It is possible that the Internet Connection Firewall is interfering. Try right clicking on "My Network Places", then select Properties. Right click your Local Area Connection and select Properties once again. Click the Advanced tab. Click Settings, Exceptions and check to ensure that File and Printer Sharing, Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop have a Tick in the box.

Let us know how you get on.

by ken

Since you have no DHCP server you need to add an IP address to the network connection. It must be in the same range and subnet as the other computer. Click "start" then "control panel" then "network connections". right click on the "local area connection" then "properties". Click on tcp/ip. Select "use the following IP address" put in 192.16.1.2 for the IP address and 255.0.0.0 for the subnet. Do this on the other computer but change the last number in the IP address to 3. They should now be able to see each other.

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