ok don't slap me if i got the wrong forum, i have a desktop and a laptop, i want to network them so i can play against a friend,a game called lord of the rings the battle for middle earth 2. i have a crossover cable and both computers have the ethernet connection, so in the easiest way possible can someone break down how i set this up... i get the connecting one end of the cable to the desktop and the other to the laptop, and i get that both machines must obviously be running the same game but what am i missing... thanks in advance
The computer you are hosting the game on should just recognize both computers running both games when you click on a Lan game. Host a game with one and join with the other. That should work fine for your router. A cross over cable should do the trick without a router. Unless you have some weird fire wall setting on. Might want to check to see if windows firewall is on. You could also try pinging the other system when connected to the router or through cross over cable. Incase you don't know how... go to [bold]start[/bold]>[bold]run[/bold]> type [bold]cmd[/bold] > then type [bold]ipconfig[/bold] on both systems. Now ping the ip of the other system on the one you're on, type [bold]ping (ip address here)[/bold]. If they can ping each other then your cpu1 can get to cpu2 and you should he able to play over your lan. Thats all the help I have. If that doesn't work, then I don't know
thank you everyone for your help in advance, figured it out, something really simple the firewalls on both computers were blocking the connection
anyways if you change your mind http://www.conniq.com/WinXPNetworking_Ethernet_direct_connection.htm << really helpful
