What needs to be in place for 2 networked computers?

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Having problems getting 2 computers to talk to each other via an
ethernet crossover cable that previously were. Both machines running
XP. One running XP Home, one running XP Media Center.

What needs to be in place on both for it to work?

About the only major change I've made since they were working was some
changes in Administrative Tools > Services. Changed some things from
automatic to manual. Should that make a difference?

DHCP is on, but on one of the machines, I keep getting a 0.0.0.0 IP
address. If I manually change it to one digit different from the other
one 198.168.2.0 and 198.168.2.1 then both machines show a connection
but still get no data transfer between them and the hard drives
designated as shared don't appear on My Computer.

All input appreciated.
 
Hello Doc,

Three things to check:

Check the firewall settings on the remote computer - that you are set
to allow connection from a range of addresses including both computers.
Turn it off temporarily for troubleshooting purposes.

In Windows XP SP2 make sure that the Windows Internet Connection
Firewall is disabled.

In Windows XP make sure that the Server, Workstation and Computer
Browser services are set at Automatic and Started (Start -> Run ->
services.msc).
 
Having problems getting 2 computers to talk to each other via an
ethernet crossover cable that previously were. Both machines running
XP. One running XP Home, one running XP Media Center.

What needs to be in place on both for it to work?

About the only major change I've made since they were working was some
changes in Administrative Tools > Services. Changed some things from
automatic to manual. Should that make a difference?

DHCP is on, but on one of the machines, I keep getting a 0.0.0.0 IP
address. If I manually change it to one digit different from the other
one 198.168.2.0 and 198.168.2.1 then both machines show a connection
but still get no data transfer between them and the hard drives
designated as shared don't appear on My Computer.

All input appreciated.
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The following links may be of some use :-

Home Networking
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp

Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm

Networking Information
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking.htm

PracticallyNetworked Home
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm
 
The Workgroup names must be the same on both computers.
Limited user accounts must be temporarily changed to admin. accounts in
order to declare shared folders in those accounts.
See Knowledge Base article 177078 (Google "177078") for increasing the
IRPStackSize.
 
Sunny said:
The Workgroup names must be the same on both computers.
Limited user accounts must be temporarily changed to admin. accounts in
order to declare shared folders in those accounts.
See Knowledge Base article 177078 (Google "177078") for increasing the
IRPStackSize.
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And what is IRPStackSize?
 
Sunny said:
The Workgroup names must be the same on both computers.
Limited user accounts must be temporarily changed to admin. accounts in
order to declare shared folders in those accounts.
See Knowledge Base article 177078 (Google "177078") for increasing the
IRPStackSize.
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If this was a problem, wouldn't I be getting a message related to it? Am
getting no messages related to IRPStacksize.
 
Hi,

From MSDN:

"Specifies how many stack locations the Server service establishes for I/O
Request Packets (IRPs).

It might be necessary to increase this number for certain transports or if
you have many file system drivers installed on the system. Each stack uses
36 bytes of memory for each receive buffer (also known as a work item )."

This article explains why it must sometimes it must be increased:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198386/EN-US/

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
That is an NT 4 article... be carefull !



Rick Rogers said:
Hi,

From MSDN:

"Specifies how many stack locations the Server service establishes for I/O
Request Packets (IRPs).

It might be necessary to increase this number for certain transports or if
you have many file system drivers installed on the system. Each stack uses
36 bytes of memory for each receive buffer (also known as a work item )."

This article explains why it must sometimes it must be increased:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198386/EN-US/

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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Yes, but the information is still pertinant to any NT system (and XP is an
NT system).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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