Cable'd crossover, and ping, but not accessible to each other! [crossover cable] [workgroups]

2010-07-24 / Networking / 0 Comments

Q: I have two laptops with crossover cable. By connecting them, I have limited connectivity until I set the ips 192.168.0.1 and 2. The working groups are the same on both computers. Netbui was installed.

As today, both laptops can ping each other. In My Network Places, you can see the other laptop, while others do not. One can see the other, can not access the other, it gave me some spiel about privileges or something.

Right now the time is set to simple file sharing. Woul

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What the heck is AppleTalk and I in Win2k Server? [crossover cable] [appletalk]

2010-06-11 / Operating Systems / 0 Comments

Q: Everytime i boot my computer I have this error in my Event Viewer:

No adapter is configured to be the default adapter. AppleTalk was not initialized to an adapter. Entities such as Print Server via AppleTalk File Server etc. will not be functional unless a default adapter is specified.

Do I need to AppleTalk enabled? If so, why? Currently there are two computers connected via a crossover cable and they both have Internet access (cable modem) and both can share files so

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