Share Internet between 2 Windows XP PC

My friend has a netbook and a desktop computer. He won't get a cable ethernet to the desktop computer because it moves things quite often. The netbook has Windows XP Home SP3 and Office Windows XP Professional SP3. He has his netbook connected to WiFi and wants to know how he can share a short cable ethernet on the desktop.

First, it may be that you need a special Ethernet cable called a crossover cable. It may also be that you do not need this cable, and a regular ethernet cable will suffice. I'm going to assume that your PC has a modern network card, most of the time this means that a crossover cable is not necessary. I will come to the way to determine later.

I make a few assumptions here do you have a 'normal' Setup, so if something does not unfold as I expect to let me know exactly why and I will help you further.

The first thing you need to do is on the router. You must make sure that the router is allocation of ip addresses in the range 192.168.0.y

To the laptop

  • Click on start and then run, type in cmd and click OK
  • In the black window resulting type ipconfig and press enter
  • If the gateway is listed as 192.168.x.y, where x is anything other than 0, then nothing needs to be done
  • If the gateway is 192.168.0.y, then you need to change the settings of your router to allocate ip addresses in the range 192.168.1.y
  • Your router is unclear for me so I can't you give precise instructions right now, but if you give me the exact brand and model I can probably find that point for you.
  • Once you have done this, check with ipconfig again, after a reboot to ensure that the gateway is now 192.168.1.x

Then you need to change things on the XP laptop

  • Click on start and then run, type ncpa.cpl and click OK. Network connections opens.
  • Right click on your wireless network connection, and then click Properties. The properties of your wireless connection opens.
  • Click the Advanced tab and check "Allow the other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection" and click OK. Click Yes to the message that results on the IP 192.168.0.1

Connect the laptop to your desktop computer with an Ethernet cable. Your router was probably fitted with one of them.

Now you have to change things on the desktop PC

  • Click on start, run then type ncpa.cpl and click OK. Network connections opens.
  • Right-click on your connection to the local network, and then click Properties. This will open the properties of your network connection.
  • Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click Properties. This will open the TCP/IP properties.
  • Click on use the following IP address
  • Enter the IP 192.168.0.2
  • Enter 255.255.255.0 for the subnet mask
  • Enter for the default gateway 192.168.0.1
  • Click on use the DNS following server addresses
  • Enter 192.168.0.1 for the primary DNS server
  • Click OK
  • Click on close

I think that should do it, as long as your Ethernet cable doesn't have to be the crossover variety. To determine if your cable is OK

  • On the laptop XP Click on start and then run, type cmd and click OK
  • In the black window resulting type ping 192.168.0.2 and press to enter. You should get 4 successful responses to 192.168.0.2
  • On the Office XP Click on start and then run, type cmd and click OK
  • In the black window resulting type ping 192.168.0.1 and press to enter. You should get 4 replies success ranging from 192.168.0.1

Now open a web browser and see if everything works.

Good luck.

Tricky

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