Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
The only thing you can't do is use DHCP for IP addressing - and that includes passing DNS server details. So the laptop will need to have IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS server IP addresses manually configured.
No need for a chair... it's just that, with ICS enabled, the Desktop actually acts as a DHCP server, so you do not need to set up IP addresses manually. If the notebook reverts to an
APIPA address (169.254.xxx.xxx), something has gone wrong with that.
OP: at this point, can you please tell us where you are now?
- if you're still trying to connect the two PCs, and don't know what to do, can you tell us about your ADSL router? Make and model? That way we can figure out what it's capable of and how it connects to your PC. This will determine what you do next:
- if it connects to your PC via a USB cable, then your cheapest best way forward is to get a crossover cable and set up Internet Connection Sharing as described earlier.
- if it connects to your Desktop via an RJ-45 Ethernet cable, as in the picture... the router might have extra RJ-45 ports on the back. If so, you can simply connect the notebook via a standard Ethernet cable as in the picture, not a crossover cable.
We need to clear this point up, it will determine what you need to buy, if anything!
OK, once you get the machines connected, (by whatever means), what are the IP addresses of the RJ-45 ports on both sides? IP addresses are
fundamental to getting any of this working, you
have to be clear about what is happening there. Nothing will work if the machines can't talk to each other at the IP level.
- From the one machine, can you PING the IP address of the other machine's RJ-45 port? And vice versa?
- Assuming that works, have you Shared a folder on the Desktop? From the Notebook, try connecting to the IP address of the Desktop by IP address. For example: Start, Run,
\\192.168.1.13 (insert correct ping-able desktop IP address) (Note that it's two backslashes, not forward slashes (/) ).
This opens a Windows Sharing (SMB) connection, which is what you use to share files between machines.