Hi This may be a lenghtly one. I admit defeat. Networks just dont seem to be my thing. Here it goes: I have a desktop AMD athlon Asus M/B with intergrated NIC. A laptop pentium m with intergrated NIC (laptop very new) I would like to connect the two via a crossover network cable and share the internet connection + freely browse the respective machines. Cant get either right. I will submit a zip file with snapshots. That will help, if someone is willing to take the tie to go through all the crap. I initially ran the Win Xp small office network wizard thing. Nothing happened. I have win XP pro sp2 on both machines. Initially the desktop had the "limited connection..." (ballon) error. I got a fix for it "WindowsXP-KB884020-x86-enu". its apparently a proble on some sp2 systems. The error appeared twice again (after the fix) but i havent seen it since. hope it worked. I tried connectin the two systems running only on ms client, printer and files sharing and tcp/ip. Computers were in the same work group but i could not even see the respective other when i viewed the 'workgroup computers". I then installed the NETBEUI protocol on both machines. I can see the respectve pcs but when i click on it i get "[pc name] is not accessible or you may not have permission to...". i went as far as to share the entire c drive on the laptop. still nothing. the moment i unistall netbeui i cannot view the other machine. i enabled the NETBIOS over tcp/ip. T The desktop uses an adsl connection over PPoE (and a funny ATM connection appears when it does - always been llike that though). the ip on the local area connection (in the tcp/ip) is set 192.168.0.1 - desktop (host) and 192.168.1.40 on the laptop (i tried 'automaticcaly getting ip' - cannot see the other computer then). NOTE: I unistalled netbeui (must have fiddeled with something inbetween) i can see the respective machines now over tcp/ip with the settings above. i still cannot access. I have disabled all firewalls for the "local area connection". I am runnig mcaffee v10 home edition antivirus. with no firewall. I also read somewhere about network cards being "unhappy " if they share irq. my card (desktop) shares irq 22 (see snapshot) with a pci to usb controller and another device (?? firewire i think) . the suggestion was to change slots of the card. Mine s intergrated so i cannot. i also have the computer browser services running. Most in article http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/xpnet.htm in this site followed. The ping commands are success full in both directions (see snapshot) Please have a look at the snapshots. Please help guys. Snapshots zip file location: http://www.uploading.com/?get=S420PJRC

Hi there What I would do is to run this program on both computers. It resets your settings. http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html One thing, Have you shared the internet connection on the computer that has the internet on it. You need to goto your internet connection in network connections in control panel. Right click your internet connection and click on properities. then on advanced. Then enable internet connection sharing. Im not sure if you have done this. If you have, Im not sure where you problem is. Hope this helps.

Heres a link that is very smple. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;306126