{"id":1708,"date":"2009-08-28T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T05:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2009-08-28T22:23:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T05:23:04","slug":"networking-issue-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/networking-issue-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking Issue Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"

For two years (if not more), I’ve been unable to get my two Windows XP machines to “talk” to each other on my simple little network using a crossover cable.<\/p>\n

My client machine could access files off the host machine, but not the other way around.<\/p>\n

This evening I finally found the answer quite by accident, so to speak.<\/p>\n

I was nosing around in Control Panel –> Administrative Tools –> Computer Management<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I got to Services and Applications –> Services –> Server<\/b> and upon right-clicking it and selecting Properties<\/b>, I ended up solving the problem.<\/p>\n

\"Crossover<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It was paused on my client machine, thus making it impossible for the host machine to access it. I clicked Resume<\/i> and it did the trick!<\/p>\n

Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Anyway, click the above image for a larger image with more helpful details.<\/p>\n

So there you are: I connect two computers together (I know that’s redundant, OK?) using an ethernet crossover cable. I don’t need a router. I don’t need the Internet. Just a crossover cable.<\/p>\n

That may resolve your home networking problems, like it did mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For two years (if not more), I’ve been unable to get my two Windows XP machines to “talk” to each other on my simple little network using a crossover cable. My client machine could access files off the host machine, but not the other way around. This evening I finally found the answer quite by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[909,697],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-tips","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}