Crossover problem!

[sniffy]

Hey

I'm having some problems with a crossover cable. I'm connected to a modem router which I'm connected to the internet through. My mate is round at the moment to play some LAN games and we didn't have a long enough ethernet cable so we got a crossover but we're having problems. Basically when he starts up his PC and it loads up, he gets a little "!" by his Local Area connection indicating he's on limited access. I think I need to manually assign him a IP and DNS address as my router would normaly do that but as he's connected to my PC, it can't.

What information do I need to obtain, where do I get it and where do I enter it? Any help is highly appericated, we're sitting around waiting to game

Thanks

Edit

I just looked in my Workgroup and I can see his PC, how annoying! It asks me for a password and says my access is rescricted, how can I remove this? Btw we'd disabled firewalls on both PC's (not windows) and it still don't work.

 

[Jimathy]

You'll probably want to make sure Internet Gateway Device Discovery Control Client installed via Add/Remove Programs >> Windows Components >> Networking. Use your ISP's DNS servers, and set your PC's IP addres as the gateway on your mates computer.

 

[Clarkey]

I assume they are only connected directly to each other so an internet connection will be irrelavent. Both of you want to manually set your IP settings, to get you p and running quickly, set one of them to 10.0.0.1 and the other to 10.0.0.2 with the subnet as 255.255.255.0 on both of them. They will then be able to communicate.

 

[sniffy]

I got it sorted.

I assume they are only connected directly to each other so an internet connection will be irrelavent. Both of you want to manually set your IP settings, to get you p and running quickly, set one of them to 10.0.0.1 and the other to 10.0.0.2 with the subnet as 255.255.255.0 on both of them. They will then be able to communicate.

I tried that, didn't work. Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys.