P2P networking help please

[Ricochet J]

Hello, i've got two computers, computer one and computer two. For the sake of clarity lets call computer one Suzanne and computer two Michelle.

Now, all I want is Suzanne to comunicate with Michelle by using a crossover cable from Suzanne's NIC to Michelle's NIC.

Now Suzanne has a static private IP address 192.168.14.2 subnetmask 255.255.255.0

and

i've put Michelle on the same subnet hence, her IP address is 192.168.14.3 subnetmask 255.255.255.0

Now, when I configure the static IPs to the relevent NICs everything is good. When I connect using the crossover cable the two little computer icons flash in the corner and say connected at 100mbps.

However, I cannot ping each other.

All I want to do is share files between the two computers.
I ran "set up a small/home office network" wizard on both XP machines, but I still can't seem to ping, or share files.


Help

 

[Ricochet J]

Yeh I did all that, but it still didn't seem to work.
I even disabled any firewalls or security measures.
In the end I just gave up and transfered my files via a removable USB.

I can't believe I can't setup a home office network yet I study Cisco CCNA

 

[Ricochet J]

Yeh, everything was setup, but in the end I just gave up and tranferred files via USB

I'll try again tonight when i've got nothing to do.