Thread: trying to link two pcs together
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Old 24-04-2007, 16:54   #13
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Re: trying to link two pcs together
Firstly, note if any link lights(where present) are lit on the back of the network cards. If you do have indicator lights and they aren't lit, you either have a faulty cable or network adapter.

Then disable all firewalls on each PC.

Set up both PC's with Static IP adresses

1st PC
IP address 192.168.0.1
S/N Mask 255.255.255.0

2nd PC
IP Adress 192.168.0.2
S/N Mask 255.255.255.0

on each PC in turn try to ping 127.0.0.1, this is an "IP loopback" address that will verify that the IP stack is working, then try pinging the machines own IP address, only after those two ping tests have worked move on to pinging PC 1 from PC 2(and vice versa).

Once you've got basic IP connectivity we can move on to other things
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