Hi,
I recieve the following error when I try to create a network with the network setup wizard on my laptop running Windows XP Pro….
Cannot Complete the Network Setup Wizard
An error occured during configuration of the network on this computer.
You can configure your network manually, or you can run the wizard again with different settings.
I am trying to connect my PC to laptop via cross-over cable (or at least this is what I think it is). It looks like this: http://www.infopackets.com/graphics/ethernet+crossover+cable.gif
The laptop has a wireless connection to my NetGear router. I want the PC (running Windows XP HE SP2) to connect to the laptop to share files/printer and internet connection. I have tried numerous times with both firewall’s disabled.
When the PC is connected via this yellow cable to the ROUTER the gateway/subnet mask are the same. The IP’s are xxx.xxx.x.2 and xxx.xxx.x.3 and can ping one another. My PC can sucessfully finish the network connection wizard and create the file but my laptop cannot. On my PC it saves the netsetup file on a floppy. I do not have a floppy drive on my laptop, could this be the reason why it cannot finish properly (all steps go fine except the creation of the file).
When I use the yellow cable to connect my PC and Laptop a connection is found but it says “Limited or No Connectivity”.
Does anyone know what could be the problem, or how the setup the network manually? I was thinking maybe it was because I’m running Pro and HE but i’ve been told that this should not be a problem. Another possibility is that the laptop has no floppy drive and therefore cannot create the file, but I honestly do not know.
Any help would be extremely appreciated.