help need for my one laptop and one pc home network

[tu8lu]

I tried to use crossover cable to set up my home network between my desktop and my laptop PC. Both of my PCs run WIN98, and I set up the same network software for both of them( client for MS Networks, IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol, NetBEUI,...). NIC for desktop is Linksys LNE100TX, and laptop is Linksys Combo PCMCIA. And I already set file and printer sharing for MS client.
The problem is that each machine can only see itself in Network Neighborhood. I have checked a lot of reference, but still can't solve this problem.

Any suggestion would be appreciated. My suspect is if the crossover cable can connect desktop and labtop (different ethernet card). Because I can only use PPP dial-up to internet. My plan is to install one proxy on my desktop after network successfully set up. So I didn't assign IP to them during the network setting procedure. I don't think that will cause my problem.

Thanks.

 

[anton]

Did you connect them thru the HUB or you made a direct connection between two network cards ? because I don't think , that direct connection would work ...

 

[tu8lu]

no, without hub. But I know direct connection with crossover cable without hub works for two PCs if both of them have the same kind of ethernet card.

 

[obenton]

First thing is to figure out if it's a hardware problem. Configure tcp/ip and see if NICs can ping themselves and each other.

 

[BCYL]

Yeah, remove all your other protcols and install TCP/IP to configure the network... crossover cable should work with any brand/kind of NIC, so unless your cable is bad that should not be a problem...

If you are unfamiliar with how to configure TCP/IP, visit HomePCLAN for more information...