How do I set up a home network with 2 pc'sForum: Networking Topic: How do I set up a home network with 2 pc's started by: jerome5 Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 23 2004,02:34
I have no Idea how to do this.So just let me be specific on what I want to do This is what I have AMD k6 running dsl and win98 ( windows however did not detect the network card) A dell dimension running dsl and win xp The two computers each have a network card and are connected by one cable not running through a router or anything. Given what I have, I want to beable to share files form both computers and ultimately share a network connection. Since dsl is hd installed I can install software as I wish basically. thanks Posted by dbarl on Sep. 23 2004,02:53
The first thing to think about is the physical connection. Are you using a regular Cat5 cable or a crossover patch cable?
Posted by \. on Sep. 23 2004,16:22
yeah, get a crossover cable, your probably using a cat5 Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 23 2004,16:29
FYI,"CAT5" is just a term that describes the quality of construction for your network cable. It is possible to have a CAT5 crossover cable. If your cable has transparent plastic connectors on each end it is very easy to see if it is a normal or "straight-though" cable as opposed to a "crossover" cable. Grab both ends of your cable and hold the two connectors up to a light so that they are side-by-side and both facing in the same direction. There are colored wires coming out of the cable into the connector. If the order of the colors (IE: purple, brown, orange with white stripe, etc) is EXACTLY the same for both connectors, then you own a "straight-through" cable. Otherwise, you probably own a "crossover" cable. You need a "crossover" cable if you want to directly connect the two computers to each other. Posted by DonttPanic on Sep. 23 2004,22:21
How would you share files between two computers in a network. One computer is dsl,and the other is WinXP. Both computers are able to access the internet, so the network works.
Posted by Aiku on Sep. 24 2004,00:55
You could start the various servers on DSL. Say ftp and ssh.Then you could use windows ftp to move files over. Or maybe windows pscp to scp files over. You could start the monkey webserver and windows could "download" files and ftp up files. You could grab samba.dsl and share folders on windows and DSL could mount those folders. Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 24 2004,06:22
I am not 100% sure yet but I think it is a cross over cable.I set up the ip addresses of the 2 computers to xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and xxx.xxx.xxx.2 and opened dilo in box.2 and entered < http://xxx.xxx.xxx.1 > and I got a page so this leads me to believe that it is a cross over cable. The priblem is that after I setup the ip addresses like this that i lose my dialup connection because I think that the system starts trying to use the eth0 as the default connection to the ibternet when it really should be using ppp0. any Idea how to fix this? Posted by roberts on Sep. 24 2004,07:07
If you lose ppp0 I would check out how you are setting up these devices. Which tool(s) are you using and in what order may make a difference. I would think it would work if you did the ppp0 and then manually entered via ifconfig command the eth0 setting and possibly a route command, then save it in /opt/bootlocal.sh. If you are using the netcardconfig script it is probably setting everything unaware of the existing ppp0 setup.
Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 24 2004,08:39
I managed to get it fixed with some gnome toolsguidedog: this allowed me to setup ip masquerading genome network: I had to add a dialup connection to the network panel, otherwise it wouldnt have known that they were one Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 24 2004,15:18
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