Small Office Network with windows Xp OS

Setup up the tcpip settings on the network cards that are connected together and put them on the same workgroup. Also the cable that connects the two network cards (or computers) must be a crossover cable. You can purchase the crossover cable or make your own if you have the required tools. More info on crossover cable here
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/content-8.html

Good luck

in tcp ip setting give i/p address eg 192.168.0.1&2 give subnet mask 255.255.255.0

open network connections and select the 2 lan connections representing your network cards then right-click on one of them and select "Bridge conections" (make sure both are selected). you will now have a third network connection that is the network bridge. from here, set your tcpip settings up on the "Network Bridge". as previosly stated, use a "cross-over" ethernet cable between the 2 computers .

You are trying to use Internet connection sharing?
I think that this is not the best way. Buy a cable/dsl router Less than $40.00 and than follow the instructions. plug the cable modem LAN cable into the port marker WAN and one cable from each PC into 2 of the other 4 ports. This will "share" the cable connection without the need for crossover cables and Internet connection sharing.

Here is a link to a cheap and effective router:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=33-124-151&depa=0

Linksys is owned by Cisco and has decent products

Workaround: Use a light weight Proxy server:

Using AnalogX Proxy to share an Internet Connection in a network:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/analogx.htm

Configuring internet based applications to use the AnalogX Proxy:
http://www.winxptutor.com/analogxclients.htm

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