RE: Networking causing hair removal

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

You don't need a tutorial or any of that stuff, - they guys on here will
sort it out... :-)

Lets start from first principles...

BTW, - I obviously don't know your level of experience/competence, so
apologies in advance if I'm teaching you to suck eggs....

Firstly, make sure that the network hardware is working correctly on each
machine, - go the device manager (My Computer, properties, hardware tab,
then device manager button). Check under "Network Adapters" and
make sure
that it is configured and working.

Then check your cabling, - check that each network card in each machine has
a link LED  on when you connect the cable to it. (usually this is green).
As
soon as you insert the RJ45 plug an LED should come on on the card, and if
you are using a hub/switch the link LED should come on at the appropriate
port there as well...

Then, on each machine, configure the network settings how you want them...
pick a protocol, and just use that one... - If you want to browse the 'net
you're going to have to have TCP/IP, so I'd recommend that you use that
protocol, - and ONLY that protocol. If you have others installed, (IPX/SPX
or NetBEUI) then remove them..

Once you have TCP/IP installed on both machines, (and no other
protocols),the set about configuring the IP stack... Pick an IP address
range, - you may already have done this, - do you have a router of any
description on your LAN? - if so this will have come factory set to a
defaul
address, which commonly is 192.168.0.1 - but this will obviously depend on
what, if anything you have got...
Use one of the private address ranges as defined by RFC1918, which are:
10.0.0.0 --- 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 --- 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 --- 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

On each machine, open up the TCP/IP Properties and set the following
configuration:
Option 1: IF you have a router which is a DHCP server, set the IP address
option to "Obtain IP address automatically", and also set the DNS
option to
"Obtain DNS server address automatically"

Option 1: IF you DON't have a DHCP service on your LAN, (or if you tried
option 1 and it didn't work), then set everything manually...
On machine 1, set the IP address to 192.168.0.1, and the subnet mask to
255.255.0.0
On machine 2 set tyhe IP address to 192.168.0.2 and the subnet mask to
255.255.0.0

For now, don't set any of the other options....

Once done, confirm the settings on each machine thus:

Open a command prompt, and type IPCONFIG /ALL <return>
Confirm that the resultant display looks at least vaguely like this...

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE
Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . :


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Description . . . . . . . ..... . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family
Fast Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . ... . . . . : 00-E0-4C-FB-03-31
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . .. . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . .... . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . .. . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :


Then, try to PING each machine from the other... on machine 1 (which is
address 192.168.0.1), open a command prompt and type: PING 192.168.0.2
<return>
you will see 5 lines of either:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
or...
Request timed out.
Repeat this test from machine 2, but using the IP address of machine 1 in
this case (i.e. PING 192.168.0.1)

Assuming in each case you see the "Replay from..." response, then
your basic
networking is working, and we can then proceed to the next step. If
however,
you don't get the replies to the ping tests, then you have a more
fundamental problem that is nothing to do with windows!

Get this far, and then post the results back here...

HTH

Paul G.


>From: "seniorsimon" <simon.ryley@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Networking causing hair removal
>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:12:26 -0000
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>Morning all,
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>Can anyone recommend a good online networking tutorial or settings
>tool.  I'm trying to get a XP home machine to talk to a win2k
>machine. Neither can see each other properly, the shares don't work
>and its driving me nuts.  I've tried every protocol I can think of
>and it still won't happen.  Flipping Windows.
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>Anyway,
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>TIA,
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>Simon
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