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MadSkillzMan

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Cleveland OHIO
hey, im going crazy here...i have 2 machines running xp pro connected by a crossover ethernet cable...no hubs, no routers....i cannot got the 2 computers to network...they sometimes recognize each other, but will not allow accesss. also, only aobut 3 packets are sent and received and nothing mroe happens. the 2 computers are :
computer A: dual AMD, 2 network cards with DSL
Computer B: old pentium, 1 network card, no internet

i would like computer B, to connect to A and be able to share resources and internet. can someone help me please?? i had to get rid of zone alarm for this and go with PC-cillian (which i dislike) as it worked for a few hours. restarted, come back the next day, no luck at al
 
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