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Posted 8/29/2009 11:11:20 PM
 

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I'm having problems connecting two computers together using an Ethernet cable.
I'm nearly sure i have no hardware problems because the two computers can communicate with the internet with no problem.

One of the two computers is a PC using WindowsXP Pro
The other is another PC using WindowsVistaHome.

I know there are ways of connecting them wirelesssly, but for my desired job I need to be able to have these 2 PCs in the same network using an Ethernet cable.

They are both in a workgroup called "WORKGROUP"

The PC with WinXP is not able to detect the PC with Vista

But on the PC with Vista , under "Network" the name of the PC with WinXP shows up under "Unspecified" but when i double-click on it to see the shared files/folder it give me an error :



When I click on diagnose, I get another error :



Thank you
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Posted 8/30/2009 4:27:45 PM
 

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any help?
i even tried buying a crossover ethernet cable and i still get the same error
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Posted 9/1/2009 12:13:20 PM


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You MUST use a crossover cable, and see if the following link helps:

http://techtricks.co.in/windows/boot-section/connecting-vista-laptop-to-xp-desktop-using-ethernet-crossover-cable


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