Firewire Networking

[bruce_code_ADS]

Hi Everyone,

Windows XP Pro supposedly supports Firewire networking straight out of the box - at least Firewire appears as a Network card anyway.

I've tried to network between Windows 2000 AS and my XP laptop since my laptop is only 10/100 LAN, whereas my network is Gigabit and Firewire is 400Mbit. I've added a four-port firewire card to the Server which deteced it fine. I've then added the cable from the server to the laptop. Now the Server is asking for drivers for 'Microsoft 1394 PC' and for 'Microsoft NIC1394'.

Does anyone know where I can get these drivers (for W2K) from?

Thanks,

Bruce

[bruce_code_ADS]

Hi Everyone...,

Anyone got an answer to this? It seems to be an asked but unanswered question on many of the tech sites I have looked at with Google - and not even D-Link answers it for me...

Thanks,

Bruce

[valter]

Well, from what I saw, you're not the only 1 with that problem ... some MS's MVP's suggest to look into drivers.cab file, other says that it will be installed automatically ... anyway, the besto would be to post the question on MS's newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community...rver.networking

[KAndle]

Here is some software that does it. I've seen a piece of hardware that would do it. I've never seen XP do it by itself before but i've only tried doing this with a Mac. I think it should work from PC 2 PC. Even in ME with without additional software. It creates a private network and I suspose you could bridge it into your internet connection. 15 ft is the distance limit without fibre repeaters. Maybe you could find the info you need here.

http://www.homenethelp.com/network/firewire.asp

http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/1394.../firenet_pc.htm

hmm maybe this?

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/18758