What am I doing wrong?

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

http://www.pctechnicians.ca/
Guides
Workgroup setup guide -- first
then ICS setup guides

"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
>