I have Win Xp both on my laptop and PC. Any one please tell me how to configure a network manually or is there any website for that tutorial?

I just went to google and did a search for "Home networking XP" and it came up with this following link. If you look you will find many more.

http://www.geekgirls.com/windowsxp_home_network.htm

Aren't search engines a wonderful thing ?

Oh, yes. I use search engine a lot but why didn't i think of google.com?
Thx, dude.

No, that was automatic configuration. I want manual configuration...

if you want to manually config your network...just give them both static IP in the same range...

i.e. 192.168.1.100/24
and 192.168.1.101/24 (hint /24 means a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0)

If they are connected to a router give that Ip as the gateway, if not dont put anything there...

should work from there

Thx 4 yr concern, neojd.
My desktop(server) has SP2 & the notebook(client) SP1.
I don't use any router or hub, but just connected them with LAN's and network cable.
The problem is automatic network configuration sometimes doesn't work, and I sometimes get a message to try to make a manual configuration.
I exactly don't know what to do first from what u instructed, though I know some about IP address.
Would u explain them again a little more in detail? Like IP address(Do I hav to make it or can I just use the original IP of my desktop?), subnet mask, or default gateway(Though I'm familiar with these two, but exactly donesn't know what to type down).
If this becomes a burden to u, would u introduce me some tutorial websites for manual network configuration, as I hav too many websites for automatic configuration and search engine for manual network configuration was not successful at all.
Again, thx...

Thx 4 yr concern, neojd.
My desktop(server) has SP2 & the notebook(client) SP1.
I don't use any router or hub, but just connected them with LAN's and network cable.
The problem is automatic network configuration sometimes doesn't work, and I sometimes get a message to try to make a manual configuration.
I exactly don't know what to do first from what u instructed, though I know some about IP address.
Would u explain them again a little more in detail? Like IP address(Do I hav to make it or can I just use the original IP of my desktop?), subnet mask, or default gateway(Though I'm familiar with these two, but exactly donesn't know what to type down).
If this becomes a burden to u, would u introduce me some tutorial websites for manual network configuration, as I hav too many websites for automatic configuration and search engine for manual network configuration was not successful at all.
Again, thx...

For both XP SP2 and SP1 to change the network settings
- click on start-->control panel
- when the control panel window opens you should see a network connections icon
- double click the network connections icon
- in that window, you should see your Local Area Connection adapter, right click on it and select properties
- In the LAN properties window there is an item labeled Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) - double click it
- change obtain an ip address automaticlly to use the following IP address
- you can enter any IP address in here that you want since the systems are not on the internet, the only thing you need to make sure of is that the network portion of the IP address are the same and the client portions are different.


The network portion of an IP address are the octets that match up to the full octets in subnet mask. For example - if you had an IP address of 192.168.1.100 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 you network address is 192.168.1 and your client address is .100 so any others computers using that network address would have to have a different client address.

Hope that helps