RE: Networking causing hair removal

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

DOH!

Before anyone else points them out, I will of course self-correct the
couple
of typo's in there...

The corrections are in-line below...

>
>Simon,
>
>You don't need a tutorial or any of that stuff, - they guys on here
will
>sort it out... :-)
>
>Lets start from first principles...
>
>BTW, - I obviously don't know your level of experience/competence, so
>apologies in advance if I'm teaching you to suck eggs....
>
>Firstly, make sure that the network hardware is working correctly on
each
>machine, - go the device manager (My Computer, properties, hardware
tab,
>then device manager button). Check under "Network Adapters"
and make sure
>that it is configured and working.
>
>Then check your cabling, - check that each network card in each machine
has
>a link LED  on when you connect the cable to it. (usually this is
green).
>As
>soon as you insert the RJ45 plug an LED should come on on the card, and
if
>you are using a hub/switch the link LED should come on at the
appropriate
>port there as well...
>
>Then, on each machine, configure the network settings how you want
them...
>pick a protocol, and just use that one... - If you want to browse the
'net
>you're going to have to have TCP/IP, so I'd recommend that you use that
>protocol, - and ONLY that protocol. If you have others installed,
(IPX/SPX
>or NetBEUI) then remove them..
>
>Once you have TCP/IP installed on both machines, (and no other
>protocols),the set about configuring the IP stack... Pick an IP address
>range, - you may already have done this, - do you have a router of any
>description on your LAN? - if so this will have come factory set to a
>defaul
>address, which commonly is 192.168.0.1 - but this will obviously depend
on
>what, if anything you have got...
>Use one of the private address ranges as defined by RFC1918, which are:
>10.0.0.0 --- 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
>172.16.0.0 --- 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
>192.168.0.0 --- 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
>
>On each machine, open up the TCP/IP Properties and set the following
>configuration:
>Option 1: IF you have a router which is a DHCP server, set the IP
address
>option to "Obtain IP address automatically", and also set the
DNS option to
>"Obtain DNS server address automatically"
>

***CORRECTION:***
- this should of course be Option 2....
*****************
>Option 1: IF you DON't have a DHCP service on your LAN, (or if you
tried
>option 1 and it didn't work), then set everything manually...
>On machine 1, set the IP address to 192.168.0.1, and the subnet mask to
>255.255.0.0
>On machine 2 set tyhe IP address to 192.168.0.2 and the subnet mask to
>255.255.0.0
>
>For now, don't set any of the other options....
>
>Once done, confirm the settings on each machine thus:
>
>Open a command prompt, and type IPCONFIG /ALL <return>
>Confirm that the resultant display looks at least vaguely like this...
>
>Windows IP Configuration
>
>         Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE
>         Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
>         Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
>         IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>         WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>         DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . :
>
>
>Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
>
>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>         Description . . . . . . . ..... . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x
>Family
>Fast Ethernet NIC
>         Physical Address. . . . ... . . . . : 00-E0-4C-FB-03-31
>         Dhcp Enabled. . . . . .. . . . . . : No
>         IP Address. . . . . . . . .... . . . : 192.168.0.1
>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . .. . . . . : 255.255.0.0
>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
>         DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :
>
>
>Then, try to PING each machine from the other... on machine 1 (which is
>address 192.168.0.1), open a command prompt and type: PING 192.168.0.2
><return>
>you will see 5 lines of either:

***CORRECTION***
The reply should of course come from 192.168.0.2....
*****************
>Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
>or...
>Request timed out.
>Repeat this test from machine 2, but using the IP address of machine 1
in
>this case (i.e. PING 192.168.0.1)
>
>Assuming in each case you see the "Replay from..." response,
then your
>basic
>networking is working, and we can then proceed to the next step. If
>however,
>you don't get the replies to the ping tests, then you have a more
>fundamental problem that is nothing to do with windows!
>
>Get this far, and then post the results back here...
>
>HTH
>
>Paul G.
>