Problems with a IPX protocol

[Eyesonly_dk]

Hello

Me and my friend were in the a nostalgic mood this day and sat down to play a little Diablo I

everything is fine until we were to connect to each other via the IPX protocol,(yes IPX is installed on both computers)

Now we have beed trying all night to make is work but they just won't communicate.

Any body have any experience in this matter, please share the info.

Thank's

[ripken204]

are u on the same network?

if not use this

http://www.hamachi.cc/

[Eyesonly_dk]

O, I'm afraid I haven't made myself clear.

We are having a direct crossed cable between the two computers and are both runing XP.

[Zxian]

The easiest way to make things work is to get a router and use that instead of the cross-over cable.

Have you made sure that regular network connectivity works between the two computers (i.e. can you ping from one to the other)? If you're using a cross over cable, you'll have to manually enter the network settings for each computer.

Moved to Gamers Hangout

[ripken204]

and can you see eachother's shared files?

[Eyesonly_dk]

Its a laptop and a desktop

The laptop can't enter the desktops shared folders

but it works the other way around

We are able to ping each other but it is the IPX we have the issues with

not the tcp/ip network

just a week or so ago it worked just fine and since then we havent changed a thing on either computer

the laptop is alos able to recive packeges from the desktop over the IPX but not the other way around