could someone tell me how to network windows 7 to windows xp?

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i have windows 7 64 bit on the desktop, and a windows xp laptop.
the xp laptop has mobile internet which i want to share with the windows 7 desktop.

I cant seem to find any information on the internet on how to set them up.

I have plugged the cabble into both lan ports, it then says it has a connection but its limmited, i right clicked the mobile internet and set it to allow sharing, but nothing shows up in windows 7 for me to be able to enable it that end... really not sure what im doing... if anyone can help me get this working that would be great.

thanks
 
Try:
USB stick in laptop - connects to internet
Enable LAN adapters on laptop and desktop
plug crossover RJ45 cable into each
manually set LAN IPv4 to 192.168.0.1 on laptop and 192.168.0.2 on desktop (desktop IP can be anything between 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.255)
manually set default gateway on desktop to 192.168.0.1
manually set DNS address on desktop to 192.168.0.1
Disable other connections on desktop
Restart both computers
If not working on desktop yet, double-check your share internet connection jazz on the USB
Double-check you've got a crossover cable not straight through, or just use wireless if available, same procedure
 
Leave the machines getting IP addresses automatically, and enable Internet Connection Sharing. They'll get IPs automatically and it should all just work.
 
right managed to get this to work in the end... i made a schoolboy error sorry.
i forgot to turn off the firewall settings in windows 7... i forgot vista/windows 7 likes to stop you doing anything and everything.

i switched off firewalls.
set mobile internet to sharing
setup a home network that connects via mobile internet.
then got the windows 7 pc to join the network... seems to work ok at the moment :)
 
No. It's not a router, and you can't just connect it to multiple machines (any more than you could a cable modem).
 
tolien said:
Leave the machines getting IP addresses automatically, and enable Internet Connection Sharing. They'll get IPs automatically and it should all just work.
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Aye, I suggested doing it manually because he said he already tried that :p
Plus I have had bad experiences with leaving it on Auto over wireless, whenever it lost the connection it reassigned a different IP on a different subnet and consequently failed to work even when reconnected, and I now make a habit of configuring it manually.
Good to hear you got it working.
 
Setting a machine to 192.168.0.1 would conflict with ICS too though.

Assigning a different IP in a different subnet sounds like it was jumping to another wireless network or your DHCP server was poorly configured.
 
Hmm, how would it conflict with ICS? I don't know much about the process, as you may have gathered, but it worked, which was enough for me!

I know not why it was changing IPs, and yes I probably should have investigated further, but fortunately that network is behind me now, and since that was with XP, I hopefully won't have similar issues any more! Perhaps I'll let it try doing things automatically the next time I need to set up a default gateway.
 
Agreed, I was just more thinking that it wouldn't affect the ICS - after all, I'm changing a setting manually to what it would set it to anyway, so no conflict - the conflict would be if I were setting it to something else manually, and thus preventing it from using the correct setting.
 
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