Crossover problem!

sniffy · 28 Jan 2006 at 21:47

Hey

I'm having some problems with a crossover cable. I'm connected to a modem router which I'm connected to the internet through. My mate is round at the moment to play some LAN games and we didn't have a long enough ethernet cable so we got a crossover but we're having problems. Basically when he starts up his PC and it loads up, he gets a little "!" by his Local Area connection indicating he's on limited access. I think I need to manually assign him a IP and DNS address as my router would normaly do that but as he's connected to my PC, it can't.

What information do I need to obtain, where do I get it and where do I enter it? Any help is highly appericated, we're sitting around waiting to game

Thanks

Edit

I just looked in my Workgroup and I can see his PC, how annoying! It asks me for a password and says my access is rescricted, how can I remove this? Btw we'd disabled firewalls on both PC's (not windows) and it still don't work.

Jimathy · 28 Jan 2006 at 22:36

You'll probably want to make sure Internet Gateway Device Discovery Control Client installed via Add/Remove Programs >> Windows Components >> Networking. Use your ISP's DNS servers, and set your PC's IP addres as the gateway on your mates computer.

Clarkey · 28 Jan 2006 at 22:58

I assume they are only connected directly to each other so an internet connection will be irrelavent. Both of you want to manually set your IP settings, to get you p and running quickly, set one of them to 10.0.0.1 and the other to 10.0.0.2 with the subnet as 255.255.255.0 on both of them. They will then be able to communicate.

sniffy · 29 Jan 2006 at 03:04

I got it sorted.

Clarkey said:
I assume they are only connected directly to each other so an internet connection will be irrelavent. Both of you want to manually set your IP settings, to get you p and running quickly, set one of them to 10.0.0.1 and the other to 10.0.0.2 with the subnet as 255.255.255.0 on both of them. They will then be able to communicate.

I tried that, didn't work. Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys.