On my Many PC's I have normal Network installed, on one of them Firewire is built in and the other has a 3 port Firewire card installed and working. Now I wired up a cable (firewire 6 pin to 6 pin) between the two computers. One runs windows XP Pro SP 2 and the other run's Win2003 Server. I assigned a Ip to each (tried both 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 & 10.0.0.1/255.0.0.0) leaving the other box's blank.
The task bar tells me it is connected but I cannot ping eaither machine or connect to it. The next thing I tried was the network wizard on XP, after this was complete I could both Ping and
\\10.0.0.2 to the machine and see the shares. Two things though that was strange:
1. IE Tells me it is not online, retry and it works (prob due to not knowing what network to use).
2. Speed was slow, in fact tested and it was 2mbit per second, the same then as my NTL Connction by chance.
I did used to have this working months ago no problems and trasferring at full speed but have no idea what has changed. My only thought was Win2003 has something to so with it. ANybody tried this and maybe there is something I need to run??