Hi, I'm in need of a short term fix so that I can share my internet connection with another PC in the house. I've bought a crossover cable to connect via ethernet ports on both pc's. I've gone through the wizard on each PC, and have enabled internet connection sharing, as well as set static ip addresses etc.

Unfortunatly this hasn't worked, i tried to ping one computer to the other, and it works going from the computer not directly connected to the internet to the other one, but not vice versa, i get the message "Reguest Timed out" three times.

I've checked the firewall and everything, and i can't see that anything is blocking it, and i'm all out of ideas.

If anyone can help i'd really appreciate it

The set up this computer (host) connected to a cable broadband modem, and the client computer connects to this one via crossover cable

Both PC's are running Windows XP

Hi Billp, welcome to SAF

As a first thought, have you enabled files and printer sharing on both systems ?
Are both machines in the same workgroup ? (Get rid of MSHOME and create your own workgroup for both systems)
Have you set at least one shared folder on both systems (only shared folders will be accessed) ?
What static IP range are you using ?
Is the gateway pointing to the modem/router ?
This crossover cable bothers me a little... you may use it to connect both systems together directly, otherwise, using a router, hub or switch, you need a straight cable... difficult to say without "viewing" how it's connected...

Useful resources:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/sharing.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126

Chris

I haven't enabled file and printer sharing, just internet connection sharing, do I need to do this?

I'm not sure what you mean by what is the gateway pointing to, so I can't tell you.

I'm using the static ip addresses of 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 with a sub net of 255.255.252.0

The crossover cable is simply connecting the two computers via ethernet

cheers for the advice

On the first link I posted, you'll see that there are many ways to connect 2 systems (or more) on a broadband modem... I use a system with two nic cards, 192.168.0.1 (gateway) connected to the modem via crossover cable, the same one with the second nic connected to a hub using a straight cable. This is the one which shares the internet connection with all others, 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.3 (my system) and 192.168.0.4, all connected to the hub using straight cables and pointing to the gateway 192.168.0.1

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Note that in some cases, the gateway may be the modem/router itself and the DNS servers on the first system (the one which shares the connection) must be provided by your ISP... on my gateway system, for example, the primary and secondary DNS are from my ISP, and all the others points to the gateway 192.168.0.1

Chris

Get yourself a cheap router and be forever happy.