What the heck am doing wrong?? network question.

[Daxxax]

OK here is the deal I have Cable access and I am set up with DHCP. I am building a system for my sister, and I wanted to move MP3's and stuff to her new one, So I set the IP on her's to 100.100.100.1, 255.255.255.0, and set mine to 100.100.100.2, 255.255.255.0, I have a cross over cable that I use to use with my older PC so I hooked it UP, well no matter what I did I could not get them to see each other I did a FIND COMPUTER and each of them would then see each other but could not access any files or anything. each one can ping itself but not the other. after messing with it for awhile I said screw it maybe the cable went bad. and I then set my PC back to DHCP, and am about 99.9% sure everything else is set back to orginal, well now I can't get on through my cable!!!! I checked IPCONFIG in DOS and I have my IP and gateway set OK. but nothing can access the net.What the heck am I doing wrong? I have removed and reinstalled the ethernet card in hardware manager, and have tried just about every setting in network properties but no matter what nothing works. The only reason I can get on now is I have a small partition running Win2K, no problems with that. been working on this all day and I really don't to want to have to call the cable company. am I just missing something or what, any help wouild be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mucman]

Hi, first try to get the LAN working. Try using the IPS 192.168.0.x , because I am not sure yours is valid for home LAN use. Make sure you have Client for Microsoft Networks setup and that you have enabled file sharing in network neighbor hood. For the NIC connected to the net turn everything off except for TCP/IP.

 

[Daxxax]

I kept on messing with it for the last three hours, must of rebooted forty times. You'll never guess what finelly started it working again? I had disabled my Zone Alarm in my startup options when I tried to hook up with my sister's PC, and I still had it disabled when I was trying to reconnect to my ISP. I turned it back ON in startup just on a whim and rebooted and guess what? boom netscape and everything else was back up!!! Not totally sure if that was it maybe just a concidence. but I'm sure happy it's working now... Anyone else out there have any experence with Zone Alarm???

 

[MulLa]

Well you need to add your local LAN adapter to the LAN area (sorry forgot the exact term again) and set the security level for your LAN to be "low" under ZoneAlarm. That should allow less restrictive access within your LAN.

Also like Mucman said you should change your IP address to 192.168.0.xxx since your 100.100.100.xxx is not a valid address for LAN use and could result in confusion when your LAN tries to access an internet site with the 100.100.100.xxx address.

 

[Daxxax]

why wouldn't 100.100.100.1 and 100.100.100.2 with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 not work with two systems connected to each other via a cross over cable?? Please explain, I relize you could never run that if you were connected out to a WAN but if it is just my two systems and nothing else I don't see the problem. Is it a Windows thing? If I'm wrong please explain it to me. and I never had Zone Alarm running while I was trying to make the connection, so it should not of mattered what I had it set to right? Thanks for the input though.

 

[Mucman]

If you happened to try visiting a website under the IP 100.100.100.x your computer will try to look through your local subnet will not look to the web for that address. 192.168.x.x, 10.0.x.x and one other set of IPS is reserved for private use and no websites go under those IPS.