Having trouble connecting 2 computers?

I am having great difficulty conencting 2 computers, one is running Vista Ultimate and has the Internet connection, and the other is running XP Home, i have just bought a Crossover cable and connected it to the onboard ethernet port on the pc running XP, and to a PCI ethernet card on the Vista machine as the onboard ethernet port on the vista machine has the broadband in it, i cant get them to connect, I have made sure they both have the same workgroup name and file sharing is on, i even disabled firewalls

any help would be super

thanks

Having trouble connecting 2 computers?virus removal

You need to make sure the IP addresses of the connections for the crossover cable are in the same range.

You will probably have to set it manually.

XP machine could be 169.254.0.1 and Vista 169.254.0.2 with subnet mask of 255.255.254.0 for both.

Having trouble connecting 2 computers?anti virus protection

i used to run network setup wizard on all pc's, then do a restart.

seemed to do the trick for me....assuming all else is set correctly
You may consider connecting these computer thru a network like a router, I recommend a linksys or d-link.. Its very easy to do so. Since vista is new I am not sure how to connect thru a crossover cables, but you should have no problems with the router...if you need help doing so let me know.
What are you trying to do? Are you trying to share files, or the internet connection.

Are both pcs in the same subnet?

Are they getting an ip address from dhcp, or is it static?

Is internet connection sharing turned on in vista.

Either way, I'd do it differently. Buy a router (about $25, $10 on ebay) and connect them both to that, as well as your broadband connection.

Then you could just have everything work, without banging your head against the wall trying to kluge this together.