Ethernet confusion for home networking

[Stormweasel]

Cheers,

If I ping that address on either machine I get no response, it times out.

On the server machine only the IP address and the Subnet mask are filled out, everything else is blank. This is for the Local Area Connection.

For the actual Broadband setup, it's set to Obtain an IP Address automatically. Ditto for the DNS. There's no details to copy.

What a bummer

[Stormweasel]

AMMAGAWD, AMMAGAWD!!

It works!

Guess what it was given how thick I sound in this thread?

Any guesses.......?















The McAfee firewall on the host computer was blocking the incoming request from the client

/cough

[dirjax]

grats... and enjoy

[Wilbur]

a definate facepalm moment.

[Caspian]

always something stupid, glad you got it figured out

[Stormweasel]

Jesus Christ, never goes simply does it?

Anyway, I now have two problems with our Tiscali connection.

First, when I try to connect the broadband I get a message saying: "There is no dial tone"

Then we get the following message:

"Warning! Insufficient bandwidth.

Other applications currently occupy the bandwidth. Please close all other
applicatons, then remove the other USB devices. Click OK to continue"

(The second networked PC is not switched on or even connected by the ethernet cable - all unplugged)

However, just to confuse things, sometimes it magically connects for no apparent reason (without a restart) but rather than being 2.3MPS, it's throttled down to 64kbps.

Or it just fails to connect ever.

I am baffled and Google's not giving me much to go on. Anyone got any ideas?