Crossover in Win98se

I have two systems running win98se. I'm trying to link them with a CAT5 crossover cable through the onboard LAN ports. I've been to several sites and just can't seem to figure out why these computers can't detect each other. I'm not even sure if they're trying. If anyone out there has set this up before or knows how could you help me please?

One pc has an old CA810 Motherboard w/Celeron 433 Mhz
Mine has Asus P4PE mother board w/P4 2.66 Ghz

Both have onboard ethernet ports.

 

You need:
Different computer names
Same workgroup names on both
File and Print sharing enabled on both
Drives or some folders shared on both machines
Installing IPX networking protocol might help.

 

he said most of it but you also need to make them have ip's like this the host puter needs to be 100.100.100.1 and number 2 puter needs to be 100.100.100.2 and both there subnets need to be 255.255.255.0 if you need step by step just ask and i can help

 

Will the netbeui or tcp/ip protocols work instead? Tried both of them individually and together. I can get each computer to detect itself in network neighborhood, but for some reason I can't get them to detect each other. I haven't tried the IPX protocol yet, but that was cause everywhere I checked they said netbeui.

The only thing I can think is maybe I've got two bad cables. I just made them myself(with expert supervision of course).

 

Doesn't windows auto assign ip's? I can assign them myself, I just didn't think I had to.

 

Log to this page it has a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing.

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing.

 

Thanks CAT5e, I think this is gonna help.

 

I've made my own cables on many occasions, and spent more time than I'd like to admit troubleshooting networking problems that turned out to be my own faulty cables. I got a cable testing unit to prevent having to waste that kind of time ever again.

 

Well my dad made all the cables for his own home network(6 or 7 different home made pc's)and he never had any problems, but this is the first time he's made a crossover.

Are those tester's expensive? If not where can a person get one? Will they test crossover cables?

 

i dont think they make testers specificly for crossover cables but the one for regular cat5 will test the cable. the only thing though is that it will say your pins are wrong i dont have too much experience in that so thedoug will probably have to tell the what the tester will have to say. thedoug can probably tell you where to get a tester too. you can try calling your local radioshack to see if they have an ethernet cable tester or cat5e tester. they prob cost under 80 dollars

 

Thanks to all who provided help in this. http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

As it turns out, the cables I made were fine. My old Intel board turned out to have a bad onboard NIC. So I got a Linksys PCI II NIC and now I have my PC's networked. http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif