I have a cable, it’s plugged into the back of both a Dell XP and Windows NT 4.0 server. What do I do? Be very specific!
Just out of curiosity, what does cutting and splicing the cable do? Is it necessary to do, will it possibly fry either port?
I have a cable, it’s plugged into the back of both a Dell XP and Windows NT 4.0 server. What do I do? Be very specific!
Just out of curiosity, what does cutting and splicing the cable do? Is it necessary to do, will it possibly fry either port?
take a regular CAT5 ethernet cable and cut the jacket of a 3 or 4 inch section. There are 8 wires inside. Cut all the orange and green wires. Then splice them backwards.
ORANGE to the GREEN
GREEN to the ORANGE
WHITE with ORANGE stripe to WHITE with GREEN strip
WHITE with GREEN strip to WHITE with ORANGE strip
make sure thats the server has DNS and DHCP installed and started. then ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew on the pc
Either Follow Jack M’s instructions or just go out and buy a cross over cable from Radio shack or some other electronics store..
Once you do that,
You will need to set the XP and the other machine to a static IP address on the same network..
Desktop 192.168.1.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Server/other machine 192.168.1.3
Subnet 255.255.255.0