Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:40 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:04:18 -0400 (EDT), Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Step 2a: >> Remove the cable and check to see if it's a straight >> through or crossover. When I went computer to computer >> with hardware of the 90's a crossover cable was required. >> Straight through: hold both connectors side by side >> and the wire colors will be in the same sequence. >> Crossover: Hold connectors side by side and some of >> the wires will be reversed. > The packet said "crossover" and Yes, some of the colours are swapped > over. > The XP comp shows "cable unplugged" when the DOS comp is powered down > and "connected" when the DOS comp is running. IMO that indicates that > something is right ;-) > Next step? OK, now that I see you are using a cross-over cable..... you can disregard all previous suggestions concerning the router & its IP assignment... etc...etc.... By the look of ... " and "connected" when the DOS comp is running......" everything seems to be A-OK on the DOS side. Every computer in a network _must_ have an IP address assigned to it. Since there is no router in your setup to assign the IPs.... you must assign 'static IPs' to both machines manually. It's already done on the DOS machine via the various IP lines in autoexec.lan which gets copied to autoexec.nos when you run c:\nos\httplan.bat Now..... you must assign a 'static IP' to the WinXP machine. I have never done it on WinXP so I'm not sure if it will be the same as Win98 But hopefully this screen-cap & Win98 description will be of some help. http://www.glennmcc.org/staticip.gif In control panel, double-click 'network'. I the 'configuration' tab, click the TCP/IP line for your NIC card and click the properties button. In the 'IP address' tab, change the setting from 'Obtain an IP address automatically' to 'specify an IP address' Since EZNOS2 on the DOS machine is setup to use 192.168.1.100 ..... let's use 192.168.1.101 for the WinXP machine. Also set the subnetmask as shown to 255.255.255.0 Save these new settings and reboot the WinXP machine to be sure that the new settings get uised. You _should_ now be able to access EZNOS2 running on the DOS machine via both HTTP & FTP -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
