Need help setting up 2 machine home network

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I have a desktop I want to connect to my laptop - both XP. The desktop has a
dialup connection to the Internet. I bought a Netgear hub and cables. Ran
the wizard on the desktop. Spooler subsystem App error. Ran it again. It set
up a bridge. Says I have two network cards. One it says in 1394 Net Adapter
which I think may be my video card (computer invoice says I have TV out).
The other which I have cable connected to is a GVC REALTEK Ethernet 10/100
PCI Adapter. I set up the shared Internet connecton on the desktop. Then ran
the wizard on my laptop. Laptop can see the Internet gateway on MYDELL
(Desktop) but can't see MYDELL on MSHOME. The desktop can't see anything on
MSHOME - not even itself. I've runt eh wizard about 50 times in different
configurations. I disabled then deleted the bridge. I manually select the
lan connection so it won't set up the bridge. I always get the spooler
error. I've messed with settings. I've tried lots of things without success.
After try 25, I discovered pinging. Until yesterday, I thought I couldn't
ping anything at all, not 192.168.0.1, not 127.0.0.1, not anything.
yesterday I tried pinging www.cobaltequipment.com and got a response. I
tried www.ebay.com and got the usual timeouts. I tried www.microsoft.com and
it worked too. Everything I've read sounds like if you can't ping, you have
a dead card, but since the laptop has seen the other computer and I can ping
a few websites, my problem is not the card. Well, I don't know what to do.
I've tried to be brief ha!

Some suggestions would be hugely apreciated.
 
I read yesterday something about the spooler. Lost the
site, but do a search for XP and file sharing on Yahoo and
keep looking. I think it is something to do with
increasing a range number for the printer (using regedit)
as some XP's have problems sharing some printers with ICS.
The 1394 is a network card and nothing to do with your
video card as far as I am aware.

Until last night I could not get my computers to see each
other or share files, yet both XP machines were able to
access the net on my DSL connection. Both machines use XP
Pro, network cards and a LinkSYS hub. The solution I came
across was:

1) Firewall on Host switch on and Client Off.
2) Switch the Guest User to On from Off on both machines
in the User Accounts (control Panel).
3) In Explorer (under tools/folder options/view/)
uncheck 'use simple file sharing' - (it's at the bottom).
4) In network connections find your network cards on each
machine and right click properties. click Install and add
extra protocol (the IPX/SPX/NetBIOS protocol).
5) Reboot both PC's and you should be able to see each
other and share files (assuming you have allowed sharing
on each of the items you want to share - drives, printers
etc...).

Hope this works for you like it did for me? Let me know.

Jaq1967
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I have a desktop I want to connect to my laptop - both XP. The desktop has a
dialup connection to the Internet. I bought a Netgear hub and cables. Ran
the wizard on the desktop. Spooler subsystem App error. Ran it again. It set
up a bridge. Says I have two network cards. One it says in 1394 Net Adapter
which I think may be my video card (computer invoice says I have TV out).
The other which I have cable connected to is a GVC REALTEK Ethernet 10/100
PCI Adapter. I set up the shared Internet connecton on the desktop. Then ran
the wizard on my laptop. Laptop can see the Internet gateway on MYDELL
(Desktop) but can't see MYDELL on MSHOME. The desktop can't see anything on
MSHOME - not even itself. I've runt eh wizard about 50 times in different
configurations. I disabled then deleted the bridge. I manually select the
lan connection so it won't set up the bridge. I always get the spooler
error. I've messed with settings. I've tried lots of things without success.
After try 25, I discovered pinging. Until yesterday, I thought I couldn't
ping anything at all, not 192.168.0.1, not 127.0.0.1, not anything.
yesterday I tried pinging www.cobaltequipment.com and got a response. I
tried www.ebay.com and got the usual timeouts. I tried
Click to expand...
www.microsoft.com and
 
I did all your steps and now both computers are seeing each other. Thanks a
ton.

Unfortunately, I can't get the client computer to connect with the internet.
I can even get it to dial the modem on the host, but I can't surf.
 
Ummm... check the client machine you haven't disabled the
TCP/IP protocol by mistake. You may like to compare the
settings of both machine to ensure they are identical...
otherwise... I'm stumped on that one. Glad the other stuff
helped you (I did something right for once! lol...)
 
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