LAN between Vista laptop and XP SP2 PC

[channabasanna]

Hi All,

I have hp laptop dv2601tx with pre-installed Vista Home Edition. I want to create a PC-Laptop LAN. I have 2 cross over ethernet cable.

At home i use BSNL broadband Internet, in my motherboard i have 2 LAN ports, one of the LAN port i have set it to the BSNL router (IP 192.168.1.100) and other port i have set it to 192.168.1.101, with Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, in my laptop i have set the IP to 192.168.1.102.

Whenever i connect the Ethernet cable and enable the network it says Connection successfull in my PC (XP), and Limited Connectivity in Laptop (Vista), when i try to ping from PC to Laptop i get request timed out error.

Again i removed the ethernet cable and put it into the LAN Port, now it shows Cable unplugged.

can i know what i should do to create my Network.

[channabasanna]

Guys please help me, i wanna play few games on LAN and use internet together, using both the machines.

[sreenidhi88]

check out this tutorial on connecting systems via cross over cable
CONNECTING VISTA LAPTOP TO XP DESKTOP USING ETHERNET CROSSOVER CABLE (http://techtricks.co.in/?p=63):razz:

[techking_dinesh]

well my router has only 1 port so i dont know how to connect so as t oshare internet

but i can help u with game thing
connect the cable in ur cpu and laptop forget the router
keep the settings as
on pc:
ip: 192.168.1.1
subnet: just press tab after entering ip it will come auto
default gateway: 192.168.1.2

on lappy
ip: 192.168.1.2
subnet: just press tab after entering ip it will come auto
default gateway: 192.168.1.1

Click on obtain dns server automatically in both cases

Just refresh and now u r connected to play games

** Connecting internet will also be simple but i haven`t tried it so would not like to advice regarding it **

[hellgate]

to create a lan connection between Vista and XP u need to download and install the LInk Layer Topology driver for XP.only then shall u be able to create a successful lan connection.