Hi all, I have a problem with connecting my computer to a laptop using the cabel. OS on my comp is WinXP pro and on the laptop WinXP home. OK, here's what I did, I connected them using the cable, assaigned each of them different IPs and shared all the drives, but I cannot acess laptop or viceversa, it says it doesn't have the permission or something like that, I dont know if I did anything wrong, help would be appreciated.
Im not sure my advice would be that useful to you but i use a wireless network to connect my computers together.If you choose not to go wireless then you could (never done this) use the Files and Settings Wizard that came with windows xp
I checked that and disabled both sygate and windows firewall. Its weird when I ping one of them the return is 100 % so there's no data loss, but I still cant transfer anything.
Did you use a crossover cable to connect them? As your not going through a hub/router, and literally connecting comp 2 comp you need to use a crossover cable in order for it to work.
Thx for your reply, yes i did use the crossover cable,and I got them connected for a while, I could transfer files from my comp. to laptop, but not viceversa, I made a few modifications now, but I can't test them, cause the laptop isn't with me right now, but I'll reply when I do.
Try to access shares by IP address: \\192.168.1.13\share1 When windows asking you for account name and password pops out, type $RemoteCompName$\Guest (or Guest equivalent in your language) and leave password blank.
