Networking Question

[Hrmm]

Hey, I've never really networked anything in my life so I have a very simplistic question, any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Ok, I have 2 pc's running win2k, they both have ethernet cards and are plugged into a Linksys hub.
I gave them the same workgroup name(in this case BLAH) and i chose two ips close together(1.0.0.5 and 1.0.0.10) I enabled print/file sharing and thats all I did.

Under the workgroup "BLAH" on each pc they can only see themselves and they can't see one another. What am I doing wrong? A walkthrough would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much....
Sorry if this question is really dumb and sorry about the spelling.

 

[minendo]

Do you have Client for Microsoft Networks enabled? Also I dont know if it would help at all but try changing the ips to like 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101.

 

[Hrmm]

yes I do, anything other then IP have to be set specifically?(DNS ect)

 

[ViperXX]

Assign them both the same subnet 255.255.255.0

DNS and Gateway settings are only needed if you plan to use a ISP with static addressing or you plan to share a Internet connection.

 

[Hrmm]

yep, did that.. what should the dns be set to?

 

[minendo]

Ive got mine set to Obtain DNS Automatically and it is working just fine.

 

[Hrmm]

Got it working! yaH..
thnxs a bunch. ONE more question though. All the pc gives me access to is printer/task manager and I wanna transfer a file over. How do i set the other pc to allow me to do this?

 

[minendo]

Set up a shared folder on the computer that you want to send the file to. Create a new folder anywhere and right click it and there should be Sharing options in the menu.

 

[Hrmm]

You guys have been great help, thnxs alot