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    Cross over cable windows 7 and vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chidesd, Aug 17, 2009.

  1. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    I am having a problem using a cross over cable . my brother has windows 7 64 bit beta on his esktop and im tryin to connect to it with a cross over cable on my laptop with vista 64 anyone know how I should go about doing this? so far I have tried with no sucess.
     
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    goofball Notebook Deity

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    did you set IP's on both machines?
     
    goofball, Aug 17, 2009
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  3. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    no cant figure out how to do it do u need to star a new network? do I need to turn off my wifi.
     
    chidesd, Aug 17, 2009
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    try a normal one, not x-over. Some not so long time ago we tried to connect my Vista machine to my friends XP and x-over didn't work... just out of curiosity i tried a normal cable and it did the job
     
    NJoy, Aug 17, 2009
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    Modern computer's network card all have the ability to do autocrossover
     
    jackluo923, Aug 17, 2009
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    sparkyman2000 Notebook Consultant

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    If autocrossover doesn't work just setup your ips like 192.168.1.1 and the other laptop 192.168.1.2, The subnets 255.255.255.0 . Set both computers workgroups to the same.

    How to change your IP. You will want to change IPv4

    How to change your workgroups.

    No need to turn off wifi.
     
    sparkyman2000, Aug 17, 2009
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