Now that one of the sproglets has a stack in her bedroom I've been trying to network the 2 machines together...
Bought a crossover cat5e cable thinking this would be 5 minutes work, however it was not to be...
Neither machine can find the other on the network despite both sending and receiving packets from each other. I've set mine as host and hers as guest with respective IP addresses of 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3. Both are looking for the same workgroup and both appear under their respective network places.
There was a piece on microsoft's website which mentioned that crossover cables are not explicitly supported under the protocol which is a bit worrying, though the chaps and chapesses in the shop were quite insistent.
Does anyone have a noddy guide available which shows how to do this?
Sprogletesses machine was a present which had previously been used on a network. Maybe this is part of the problem...
How embarrassing......
