NoteWhat's this tutorial about...
This is a simple tutorial on how to setup a cable network of two PCs using a cross-over Cable.
Information
General Information
The tutorial is based on two laptops running Windows 7 and Windows XP.
It is assumed that you have the w7 machine already connected to the internet.
The network is a wireless network, with broadband modem directly connected to a Linksys wireless router (WRT54G). The w7 machine is wirelessly connected to the network.
Requirements
How To:
- Two machines running w7 and XP.
- An ethernet cable (Cat 5 or 6).
Testing ports and cable connectivity.
1) Power on both w7 and Windows XP machines and connect both with the ethernet cross- over cable.
2) From w7, go to a command prompt and obtain ipconfig /all details. Mine looks like this.
3) Note from 1) the IP: 192.168.1.100, Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1.
4) Log onto the XP Machine, in Properties of LAN, manually input the following IP settings (as per image). Leave all other settings unchanged. Click the Ok button to exit.
WarningThe reason i chose 192.168.1.102, and not .101, is because w7 will allocate .101 as the Bridging interface, if you set the IP to .101, you will get a conflict message, and process will fail.
5) From W7 machine Network Connections, right-click on the LAN interface with the cross-cable attached, and input the following IP settings (as per image). Leave all other settings unchanged. Click the Ok button to exit.
6) Open up command prompts, and perform pingtests from one machine to the other. Don't forget to wait a few seconds from the IP settings to take effect. If successfull both machines should successfully ping one another.
NoteAt this stage you can RDP to either machine from the other, using the IPs you manually inputted. You can also create shares$ to share files betweenone the machine. The testing of the ports and cable is a success.
Obtaining Internet Access for the XP Machine
7) From w7 Network Connections, located the two LAN connections (in this example one being the Wireless Network, the other the LAN between the two machines ie LAN of cross-over cable). Select the two, right-click and click Bridge Connections. Once the system finishes bridging the connections, a new LAN called Network Bridge is created as shown. Note: the highlightes are NOT what is used to bridge.
NoteDuring bridging, the system will attempt to acquire network addresses. This may take time.
Final Step
8) Go back to Windows XP, in the tcp/ip Properites untick "Use the following IP Address". And re-select option "Obtain an IP address automatically.
9) After a few seconds of waiting for the system to refresh, you can now surt the net on your XP Machine.
NoteThis is one method of bridging connection as to share internet connections, which should work. I have checked and redo many times. I have not made any attempts to start any special services on either machines, nor installed or enabled any options.
Hope you find this tutorial each to follow.