Anyone linked their 360 to Live this way... ?

[Goody_GTI]

Hi,

Was trying to help a mate out at the weekend to connect his xbox 360 to live, and the way we were trying was by using a crossed cable to directly connect the xbox and the pc together, with the pc having its internet connection shared.

The two connected fine and the xbox got an IP address OK, the problem was that when you did the live test connection the xbox was complaining about DNS or something??

Is it even possible to connect to live this way or were we missing something?

Any help appreciated

 

[Goody_GTI]

Cheers for the replys... but Stellios - yours has confused me a little lol

We weren't using a router? We were just linking it directly to his pc, and his pc was connected to the net via a usb modem...

I'm sure its some setting we were missing though

 

[Goody_GTI]

Cheers you've all been great help

Will give it another go next time I go round (have forwarded him the MS links so he can have a go himself as well!)

Many thanks

Goody