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weird problem with a small netowk
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Original Message
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Name: Tomer
Date: April 15, 2003 at 06:11:30 Pacific
Subject: weird problem with a small netowk
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: P4 1500Mghz
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Comment: im trying for few days now to set up a small home netwok between my PC (WIN XP) and my father laptop (WIN 2000) that the only purpose of this is just to transfer data between the computer and not for internet needs and etc. after i set up every thing and went trough the netowk setup wizrad on my computer i configured both the computer's ip as a class c (200.210.1.5/6 with a sub mask of 255.255.255.0) and attached the network cable beteen them. then comes the weird part...when i tried to ping his computer i got errors, but when i pinged my computer it worked fine. but still it doesn't help me because just a 1/2 of the network is working fine!!!
one thing that i think that maybe is the reason of this is that in the wizrad where you supposed to check what is the purpose of the network i checked the last option that says "this computer belongs to a network that doesn't have a internet connection" because it was the only one that is close to the real purpose of the netwok (peer-to-peer), and i think that maybe i should of checked another option and this is what causing all this.
if anyone have any idea what's going on plz help me
10x
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Response Number 1
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Name: ip256
Date: April 15, 2003 at 12:52:55 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Are you sure you are using a cross over cable? If you can ping the pc itself from both machines, that means your tcp/ip stack were loaded properly on both machines. Put a default gateway 200.210.1.1 on both machines and see what happen.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Tomer
Date: April 15, 2003 at 13:32:50 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)yes it's a cross over cable 100%, but as i said i can ping just the pc from the laptop but not otherwise!!
what is this defult gateway and how is it suppose to help me?
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Response Number 3
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Name: ip256
Date: April 15, 2003 at 15:33:26 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)A default gateway, in a tcp/ip world, is a path for the return packets. You said you can ping the pc from laptop, but not the laptop from pc. Double check the subnet mask on both machines again. I still think you might need the gateway ip. If you still have problem, change the ip to the following and see what happen. One machine with ip 1.1.1.1 and other 1.1.1.2 with subnet mask 255.255.255.252, put the 1.1.1.1 as the default gateway on both machines. Let me know how it goes.
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Response Number 4
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Name: TOmer
Date: April 16, 2003 at 06:38:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i've tried what you told me to do with the IPs, subnet and gateway but it still doesn't work!!!
WTF am i doing wrong?!?
plz help, ASAP!
10x
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