Setup Two Computers Via LAN For Sharing Creating a LAN (Local area network) connection between 2 computer systems can make sharing easy by using a LAN connection, you can transfer your GB’s of data files like documents, music, and media, quickly from one computer to another. And not just that, by connecting two computers via LAN, you can also make your computer to play multiplayer games on it and to do that, you’ll just need to connect two computers, create a LAN connection, host a multiplayer game and Play On. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can set up a LAN connections between two computers without using any modem or router, you’ll just only need a single Crossover Ethernet Cable and that’s it.

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What you need are basically 1 crossover cable and 2. To connect both computers. If not, crossover cable is. Network information in Windows 7. ARCHIVED: Directly connecting computers and sharing. If one or both computers use Windows 8, 7. If both computers use Windows XP, to use a crossover cable to.

In case, you wanted to connect your PCs by using a modem or router device, then I’m also going to help with that too. So Let’s See How To Create A LAN Connection The first thing you’ll have to make sure is, you do have a crossover cable in your hand to connect to two computers because cross-over and straight cable look both same but work differently.

Mainly to connect two different networking devices we use a straight Ethernet cable and to connect two same devices we need to use a crossover Ethernet cable, and the actually different in these two different kinds of cables is the internal wire connection. So, make sure you have a crossover cable because it’s the only way to connect two computers without a modem, or otherwise you can use a straight cable if you’re both computer is connected to the network device like a Router, Network Switch or a Modem. This is how both cables internal color coding looks like: If you don’t have any crossover cable at your side then you can check you the given link below to buy a new one yourself, or in case you if you having a straight cable then you can also use straight to crossover converter adapter to convert your straight cable into the crossover.

After collecting everything, now its time to see how to make things work; Step 1 – Creating A Physical Connection Now the first thing what you’ll need to do is to connect each end of your LAN cable into both of your computer’s Ethernet Port to connect both computers with each other. If you’re using a modem or router switch then make sure everything is connected properly. And if you are trying to share thing like transferring some files from your laptop to some another laptop, then you can also user your laptops Wi-Fi to share your files wirelessly. To do that, both of the WIFI enabled devices needed to connect to some WIFI router, and the rest of whole procedure is same like others. Step 2 –LAN Connection Setting After connecting everything now it’s time to setup an IP address in both your computers to make your computer to identify the connection. You’ll just need to follow this same procedure in both of your computers or maybe laptops. Open your Windows Control Panel, or you can search for “ Network and Sharing Center” in the Start Menu.

Select the Network and Sharing Center option. From the left sidebar, click on “ Change Adapter Settings” option. After that, open your “Local Area Connection” or I say Ethernet Adaptor’s properties. Now select the “Internet protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” option and then click on its “Properties” button.

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Now when the “Internet protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) properties” windows get popped up. Enter the IP address manually as shown in the picture given below and click on the “ Ok” button after entering it.

This IP address given the picture is only going to works when you connected both of your computers via crossover cable.If you have a modem or If you have a modem or WIFI router, then you’ll have to add the gateway IP as well. In that case, your IP should need to look like this – Step 3 – Change Default Sharing Setting After entering the IP Address in both of your computers, now you’ll need to change the sharing setting of your computers to permit access rights for another computer.

To do that, first, you’ll again have to go back to the Network and Sharing Center setting page of your Windows and then select the “Advanced sharing settings” option to see all your computers network sharing setting.

Good afternoon, I'm currently trying to connect two computers together using a crossover cable. No router, modem or switch. But the damn thing just won't work. The set up: Desktop (windows 7) and laptop (also, windows 7) are connected via the cable in their ethernet ports.

Might be a firewall issue, try turning off the firewalls on each PC. Btw, if these are modern PCs, you don't need a crossover cable, a standard cable will work just fine (in fact, I would try a standard cable if the problems persist).

Also, I'm not a fan of cross-referencing the gateways and DNS servers. There's no reason to specify these if they are not in fact offering these services. It might lead to unexpected behaviors. A simple IP + subnet mask should be all that's necessary (regardless of your issue w/ the network name and type). Both computers only use AVG (which doesn't have a firewall, and windows built in firewall. For these tests I have turned them off. I originally used a normal cable (and not a crossover) but it was no different.

I only included the information of using a crossover cable so it might exclude some theories. I have cropped the gateways and dns servers entirely from the ip4. Now they both only specify ip address and subnet mask. Unfortunately, that makes the networks show up as unidentified and therefore private only. I do have the private network part of the firewall turned off as well and the advanced sharing settings do have all of the network discovery and the likes allowed. IIRC, you should be able to change the name and type of network for this connection by using the Network Sharing Center.

You just click on the name or icon, respectively. Not that it should really matter. A private/home/work network is considered trusted, whereas a public network is not. So if anything, private should be less of a problem than public. But I'm not sure any of this is related to the immediate problem. Assuming it’s not a firewall issue, the fact you can’t ping one machine from the other means you don’t have basic connectivity established (i.e., your TCP/IP config is wrong). But it’s a pretty simple configuration, so hard to mess up (and yours seems right).

It usually works immediately. As with any MS p2p network, you need to take care of all the other details; each as to be part of the same named homegroup/workgroup, you need the same username/password on each computer, etc. I assume you have. Just out of curiosity, try using explicit IP references rather than names: 192.168.2.1 If that doesn’t work, one last idea.

Try setting each PC’s TCP/IP configuration to DHCP. I know that may sound counter-intuitive, but by using DHCP when a DHCP server is not available, it will force the computers to SELF-CONFIGURE themselves using the 169.254.x.x network. Each will randomly generate a unique IP within that network (and you can determine specifically which one w/ ipconfig). At the very least, assuming there are no firewall issues, they should be able to ping each other. I had hoped never to admit to this one in public but the last time I struggled with a similar problem, it turned out that one of the PCs had an onboard NIC and another in a PCI slot and I had cabled to the wrong one. I say this in case anyone else has been unfortunate enough to have made the same completely understandable and forgiveable mistake. It is also possible that your laptop is one of those who's BIOS needs adjusting if it has an either/or WLAN/ethernet setup so that both can exist at the same time.

I had the same problem by trying to connect a Windows 7 PC with a Windows 8 laptop throught an ethernet crossover network cable (I think on modern PCs there is no difference if you use a crossover or simple network cable because modern NICs get the job done anyway. Now lets get to the kernel of the problem here: I think the reason 'cause you can't access your computers through the network is because Windows 7 and 8 doesn't enable sharing by default for public networks. When you connect 2 computers directly through an ethernet cable the connection is recognized as 'Not Identified Network' and Windows automaticaly adds the connection to the public profile which is not enabled for sharing or network discovery by default. There are 2 solutions for this problem: 1.) Enable network discovery and sharing for the public profile: Go to Control Panel - Network and Internet - Network and Sharing Centrer - Change advanced sharing settings - Under the public profile enable network discovery and sharing.

2.) Change the default behaviour of adding 'Not Identified Networks' to the public profile: In start menu search or Metro UI type: secpol.msc ENTER, go to 'Network List Manager Policies', double click: 'Unidentified Networks' in location type select: Private and in 'User permission' set 'User can change location' - Ok.Maybe you will have to restart your computer for changes to take effect.