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Originally Posted by gazzae
Its because you don't have a DHCP server to provide the IP addresses. If you are just connecting the PC's to each other then you will need to manually assign them IP addresses.
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Except they're XP so as long as the NICs are set to assign an IP address automatically, if a DHCP server isn't contactable, they'll assign their own IP addresses (169.x.x.x)
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Originally Posted by funkyCable
oops forgot about that i'm so used to going through a router
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i managed to connect these two pcs together last night using wifi but now that I am trying to connect them using a wire it does not seem to what to share the files. I can see both pcs on my Workgroups but when I double click on the pc icon I get that it is not accessible and that I may not have permission. any ideas what I should look for?
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Go to the advanced tab in the windows firewall (even if you've got it turned off, as it lies) and you'll see a list of network connections to apply the firewall to.
Make sure your local area connection on both machines is unticked.