Networking my PC to my laptop
 

i recently bought a new laptop and want to network it to my PC. I had my old laptop working fine using a ethernet cable.

ive plugged the ethernet cable into my new laptop and ran network wizard but still no luck.

it says in the taskbar in the bottom right corner limited connectivity.

thanks for any help

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

:welcome: to the site


Your just networking using a cross over cable?
Have you allowed acces in your firewalls??

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

1) :welcome: to the site.

2) Lots of info here: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=66

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

yes im using a cross over ethernet cable. i have looked at the firewall but im not sure how to allow it.

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

by the sounds of it, you need to set the IP address on each of them :)

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

how do i do that? on both my PC and my laptop i have a picture of 2 monitors in the bottom right corner but it says limited or no connectivity.

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

open a dos prompt and type ipconfig, what ip address is getting assigned to the network card?

Re: Networking my PC to my laptop
 

what do you mean by network card, ive done the ipconfig and it comes up with:

internet conection

ip address
subnet mask
default gateway

laptop connection

ip address
subnet mask
default gateway

should any of these numbers match up?