Trying to network 2 PC's via crossover?

[PrayingMantus]

I am new to networking and am trying to set two systems in the office here.
I have an XP machine that I am using as the gateway for the internet and a 98se machine that I have been trying to network together. The hardware seems fine (both new nic's with green light's showing) Connected with a new Cat5 Crossover cable.
I have been trying to network my two machines all day so I looked up this thread. I have printer and file sharing enabled on the 98 machine as I need to be able to use the printer on the 98 machine and access files from both. I would ping to check the hardware but I don't know how to do that. Although I don't think that there is a problem with hardware being as it's all basically new and that the 98 machine can trigger the xp machine to dial up the internet but I can't surf from the 98 machine.

Any help would be much appreciated as I am unable to go any further with this on my own,

Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

Its okay.

You want two things:

. A Local Area Network (LAN) Connection
. Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

Steve Winograd, MS MVP has written a terrific site to walk you through the process:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

This Guide is also very good:

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/guidshr2.htm

The same site has an ICS Guide too. Here is the link to the section showing configuration of the Win98 client:

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/icsclnt.htm

Please ask again if you have any issues.

 

[PrayingMantus]

mmmm yeah thanks I have already looked at that site, in fact it helped me to get the network to it's current state, unfortunately the network is not working and I don't know why?

 

[bcastner]

To ping:

Start Button, Run, type in CMD and hit enter

ping 127.0.0.1 (that is yourself)
ping 192.168.0.1 (that should also be yourself as ICS host)

etc.

 

[bcastner]

Do this mini checklist:

. No firewalls, or firewalls disabled. This includes the native Windows XP ICF firewall;
. Client for Microsoft Networking, File and Printer Sharing, TCP/IP protocol on all machines;
. You start Windows with a logon using a username and password, both machines;
. Users of both machines are entered as users on all machines;
. Something: folder, drive, printer, something shared on both machines;
. Under the Properties tab for TCP/IP, you have "Obtain and IP address automaticly" selected;
. Hit the Advanced button (XP). You have "Netbios over TCP/IP" enabled, and set as the default protocol (Win9x) on both machines. On the XP machine this is under the WINS tab found after hitting the Advanced button.

reboot the Host ICS machine. When you are logged on, reboot the Win9x machine.