I have two PC's. Once upon a time a good friend of mine linked them both and I enjoyed internet access on both. Then one got sick. I had to take out Windows and re-install it. Now my PC's don't speak to each other. How do I get them to become friends again?

My friend who linked them (Via a cable) is Swiss. He explained it all to me in Swiss. I don't speak or understand Swiss. I felt very ashamed at not knowing Swiss and kept quiet. I just smiled and let him do it. Now I feel very ashamed at not being able to speak Swiss or PC language.

Any ideas anyone (In English?).

Ben

Hehe... are they linked via an Ethernet cable?
You could try and add a network connection. Choose to connect over the LAN and enter the IP adress of the other computer as the gateway... there are several other things you have to do maybe. Sorry can't tell you more but to look in the internet for a manual.

Ethernet cable? LAN? IP Address...hell Ariane I don't know my own address let alone my computer's.

Hmmm one thing you might be able to help me with...should I be looking for a disc that came with the cable? Would that be likely?

Ben

Well finding your IP is easy just go to DOS and type 'ipconfig' or go to www.whatismyip.com you should be able to establish a connection by going to my network connections and doing it manually as Ariane said.

Okay I can do all the bits on the inside through network connections that's no problem. But on which one? The one that does the talking or the one that listens? Slave or master?

Ben

Ok:

How to see the IP adress of a computer:
Goto the 'Start' menu -> 'Execute'
Enter 'cmd'
A command line box should open...
Enter 'ipconfig' and you will see your IP address.

Note that you can have more than one adress in different networks. If you have a computer with internet access and a connection to another local PC then you have two adapters: the modem and the LAN (Local Area Network) cable (Ethernet). Then the important IP is the one of the LAN adapter.

You then have to create on the other PC a new network connection (System Control Panel -> network connections -> wizard/assistant...) that connects to the internet via the LAN cable and enter the IP of the 'gateway'.

It would be much luck if there actually was a disk with the cable... if you have one then you could try it...

I usually just use the wizard in network connections?

This works too if you mean not the wizard but the connection itself... you can switch to the 'details' page.

Ben,

If you have both boxes connected to your network via a router, then the easiest way to have them both hooked up to the Internet would be to click Start, click Run, type in(without the quotes) "inetwiz".

Select Connect using my local area connection (LAN).

On the next screen, make sure that you take the checks out of all three boxes for the proxy settings (there should only be one box checked by default).

On the next screen, you can set up your email if you know the pop and smtp settings. Otherwise, just select not at this time.

Click finish.

You should now be online with both PCs.

Ben, Swiss as a language does not exist!!! We have mainly German, French, Italian as National languages.

There's a simpler way and if I read right, he said "a cable", meaning one cable between both computers? You don't need a router even. I am assuming you still have "the cable". It will help if you told us what type of cable it is. You can network 2 computers together via an Ethernet cable or even with a USB cable. If you lost "your cable", you can go down to your local Radio Shack or other technology store and ask for an Ethernet Cross-Over cable. Then go home, plug the cable to both Ethernet cards and the computer that dials in to the Internet, make it a DHCP router. Make sure you don't have a static IP on your other computer, the one that is not dialing into the Internet. If the IP is not set, the other computer can asign an IP automatically using DHCP. That's it. If you can't figure it out, post your operating system of both computers here and we could guide you step by step.

I still got the cable!!!! Sorry we've been power outed by floods, blizzards and now white stuff...Oh yeah more snow! Cable is described as 15 meters of crossed UTP Network cable????

Ben

I thought he sounded very German!!! Still we had a fondue??? That was very...err...different.

Ben