Hi,
I am having a problem installing a small, simple network. The OS is XP Pro & Home, both NIC's and their drivers are installed and I'm getting connection lights on the hub. Both C:\ drives are shared and the firewall on A is disabled. I manually configured each nic with IP addresses myself and not using dhcp. I have an external USB DSL modem that I use for internet access. Computer A cannot ping the loopback address nor the IP I configured for itself, but can ping Computer B. Computer B pings the loopback address and it's NIC just fine but cannot ping Computer A. Now this is where I'm confused to what the problem is. I think their might be a conflict with my USB modem because Computer B cannot see Computer A's network when the USB Modem is plugged in. Computer A cannot see anything period. When I put back the USB modem and restart Computer B, I can't see Computer A. I'm not sure as to what is happening. Am I having an IP conflict somehow associated with using 2 NIC's? one for the USB modem and the other for a LAN? Please help.
I am having a problem installing a small, simple network. The OS is XP Pro & Home, both NIC's and their drivers are installed and I'm getting connection lights on the hub. Both C:\ drives are shared and the firewall on A is disabled. I manually configured each nic with IP addresses myself and not using dhcp. I have an external USB DSL modem that I use for internet access. Computer A cannot ping the loopback address nor the IP I configured for itself, but can ping Computer B. Computer B pings the loopback address and it's NIC just fine but cannot ping Computer A. Now this is where I'm confused to what the problem is. I think their might be a conflict with my USB modem because Computer B cannot see Computer A's network when the USB Modem is plugged in. Computer A cannot see anything period. When I put back the USB modem and restart Computer B, I can't see Computer A. I'm not sure as to what is happening. Am I having an IP conflict somehow associated with using 2 NIC's? one for the USB modem and the other for a LAN? Please help.