How to configure a small peer to peer network and enable file sharing for
Windows XP
Note: perform the below at your own risk if you open up your network to the internet and a virus ravages your PC. Dream In Code and I the author cannot be held liable.
I would not recommend performing the below on a network that is going to be on the internet if you want to set up a small gaming LAN these directions should be just the ticket.
(You will need to perform the following on each computer)
First we need to ensure that every PC is going to be on the same workgroup by default it should be named workgroup. Here is how to check and make corrections.
Right click on my computer and select properties
From the properties box click on computer name and make a note for what the Computer name and Workgroup is. If the two PC’s are in different workgroups then you will need to change the settings here. Click on the change button and you can name your computers and assign a workgroup for ease of use in this tutorial we will name the first computer “computer1â€, and the workgroup “Workgroupâ€. (Note: the workgroup name is case sensitive)
You at home can use what ever you like just substitute what ever you want for these values click OK and close the properties box. If you made any changes to your computer windows will want to reboot. Now that the work groups are named we can get these guys talking to each other.
Right click on My Network Places
Select properties
Right click on local area connection
select properties
Click on Internet Protocol TCP/IP
Click properties
and check the following picture if it looks like this DHCP is enabled and you should get a 169.254.x.x Ip address automatically from windows.
if it doesn’t or you keep getting the same one
Click use the following IP address ( Here we will be configuring a static IP address)
Enter something like this
Ip address 192.168.100.1
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
( the second computer's IP address would be 192.168.100.2 and so on for each computer)
then click ok
At this point you will want to ping the other machine to test the settings
From the first PC (192.168.100.1) click on Start->Run type “command†press enter
At the Dos prompt type ping 192.168.100.2 and press enter if you receive something similar to the below you are ready to start configuring file and print sharing If not you will want to verify your settings
Microsoft® Windows DOS
©Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\ 1>ping 192.168.100.2
Pinging 192.168.100.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.100.2: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.100.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.100.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.100.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 192.168.100.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 1ms
C:\ >
Since we now can ping the other computers your multi-player games should be functioning properly.
If you want to transfer files between computers we will have to do some more configuration.
Open My Computer
Right click on the HDD (C
Select Sharing and security (Or if you don’t have that option, click the "Properties" selection and then the Sharing Tab)
Windows may freak out at this point wanting to know if you are sure you want to do this. Well yeah if we didn’t we wouldn’t be networking the PC’s together. (XP Home may be different if so let me know as I never have used it, they castrated the networking components to make it a value product and you cannot connect more then 4 Computers on to a network as more then that and it just doesn’t see anymore. )
Check the share radio button and set the number of users that you would like to allow ( if this isn’t going on the internet I would allow maximum as security isn’t needed in a stand alone environment and we want to keep this simple) click ok and you should be set.
To test this use a separate computer and fire up explorer and type \\computer1\c and you should connect to the c: drive of the fist computer that you just shared.
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But if one of PC's running on Vista it's too much easier
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