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Workgroup setup guide -- first
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"Conan Kelly" <CTBarbarin at msn dot com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to workgroup (peer 2 peer) network my laptop (Win XP Pro SP2)
> with my desktop (Win XP MCE 05) with a crossover cable (no hub). My
> laptop is the acting as the server: this is the one that connects to the
> internet via dial-up, will share the internet with the MCE machine, and is
> connected directly to our only printer.
>
> If I understand this correctly, my MCE machine will need to have a
> dynamically set IP address to access the internet. When I have it set
> dynamically, the connection is always "Limited or no connectivity" and the
> IP address is 169.254.x.x:255.255.0.0, it does not appear that I can get
> to the internet (the dial-up dialog box pops up wanting me to dial-up from
> that machine), and I can't see/access my laptop on the network from this
> machine. If I change it to static and set the IP address correctly, I can
> see/access/file/printer share the laptop from my MCE machine.
>
> I ran the Network Setup wizard on the laptop (maybe a month ago) and it
> was working fine: I could get to the internet and access the laptop
> shares from the MCE box. But a reboot of the laptop seemed to revert it
> back (no longer able to get to the internet/shares from the MCE box).
> Then the Network Setup wizard would freeze up and lock up the whole
> system. The only way to get out of it was to hold the power button for 5
> secs. (OUCH!!!--I don't like doing that).
>
> Yesterday, I ran the Network Setup wizard and it didn't freeze up. But
> when it was done, I still had limited/no connectivity on the MCE box (I
> did try to Repair the connection on the MCE machine after running the
> wizard on the laptop).
>
> Please can some one help me manually configure these to machines to get
> them to network correctly?
>
> Please let me know what additional info you need.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide,
>
> Conan Kelly
>