On Tuesday 06 January 2004 22:42, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > [...snip] > There's only the two computers, connected with a crossover cable. > One is a "Bitsa" - a Celeron 2G desktop and the other is a > Thinkpad. Both came with WIN2KPRO installed, and all I had to do to > make them talk when both are running windoze was to create a > username on each machine for the other machine. Simple. > > Both have "Obtain an IP address automatically" selected in the > TCP/IP properties. Clicking on Network Identification reveals that > both are on "WORKGROUP"; the desktop is named CEL2GTHAI [because > it's a 2G Celeron machine that I bought in Thailand] and the laptop > is named THINKPAD. > > Running "ipconfig" from a DOS prompt shows: > laptop: > Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : > Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.5.217 > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : > C:\> > > desktop: > Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : > Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.115.144 > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : > C:\> > It's a long time since I used W2k, so I can't remember exactly where things are. I'll describe it in Win98 terms, which I'm sure you will be able to translate to W2K terms.
In Control Panel, select Network. You should have TCP/IP set as a protocol. Get the Properties pages up. On one tab you will see 'Obtain an IP address automatically' Select the other option, which will then offer you a series of boxes to fill in. Put in 192.168.0.10, say for one box and the other one should be, say, 192.168.0.20. It's important that they are on the same subnet, which means that only the last number is different. In both the Windows box and the Linux one, the netmask is 255.255.255.0. I don't think you said which one is to have the Internet connection? Whichever has that is the 'gateway'. On the other machine you will need to give the address of that machine as gateway. Use the wizard in Mandrake to set up the linux box. It's just the same as setting up the windows one. It's late here, and I need to sleep. Try this, and come back if you need to. One thing, though. When you have to give the workgroup name, remember that capitalisation matters. I find that it's best to change it to all lower-case on both windows and linux machines. If you need help before I'm back, someone else will join in to help you. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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