Nope, still no luck. I re-installed the NIC drivers on both systems, ran the Winsock repair tool, but still can't ping the other machine although each machine can ping itself.
If I unplug the cable on either machine the other machine notifies about the break in connection.
What I do find very...
Hi
No need to be confused, bcastner, you are absolutely correct, I re-assigned the IP's after my first post :)
I tried your suggestion, disabling LMHOST and the Netbios over TCP/IP was already enabled. Still getting:
"Request timed out" on a ping to the Win2000 machine and visa...
Neither of the machines are currently part of a domain.
Both are setup on the same WORKGROUP. I tried the search
functionality, but to no avail.
Here are the IPCONFIG results:
Results from WinXP machine
C:\>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Please Help!!
I am not a networking expert and this is driving me insane.
I previously had a laptop running Win2000 Pro and a home PC also running Win2000 Pro. I was able to access shared folders on both without any problems via cross-over cable.
Now my new laptop is running on WinXP Pro...
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