How to connect two computer only using by Cross cable , without using or assign any Internet protocol address.

Question

Here is two desktop , i want to connect them on a single network and both computer can access the share document and printer , it will be possible, if we will asign an Ip address and cross cable both machine, but i don't want to use an Internet Protocol (ip)address , If it is possible, then how?

Answer 1

Yes, you can connect 2 computers without TCP/IP i.e. without using IP addresses. You need to switch on NetBEUI protocol. you can find details on http://technet.microsoft.com or www.microsoft.com/technet give search term as NetBEUI or NetBIOS.
The + points are: it is faster than tcpip. Needs no configuration of addresses. The computer names must be unique for each computer on that physical network. It works by broadcast search method. you can access the shared files and printers by e.g. typing \\computer1\sharedfile , etc.

the - points are: it is non-routable. you cannot share internet connection when using netbeui. It is not scalable. All computers must be on the same physical network.

do give it a try. it is worth the experiment. Do let me know whether this satisfied your requirement.

Answer 2

If you are going to cable the machines, (using a cross over cable as you stated) you need to plug those into the NIC Cards. In order for those Nic Cards to communicate using this method, you "MUST" use an IP address. There is no other way using Cable and nic cards with out an IP address.

Now if you are not going to use cables, you can try to do it via a few other ways. You can do it with out cables. You have Infra-red (I would rather use dial up services with all the banners rather than this slow method). Blue tooth is another. You could use an ad hoc wireless solution but you would still have to assign IP addresses to those devices.

I hope this helps, good luck

Answer 3

YOu could use another protocal like IBX but why?
TCP/IP is just fine and you don't need to be connected to the internet to use it.
A crossover cable will work fine but a hub of some sort is preferable:
On most windows based machines some form of the following will get you to the right place.

Start-->Control Panel-->Network Connections
Right Click on "Local Area Connection" choose properties.
Highlight TCP/IP and click the properties button.
Click on STATIC IP.
give the first computer

ip address of 192.168.1.1
subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
Dont worry about Default gateway since you will have no use for ARP don't worry about DNS servers either.

On the second computer:
IP address: 192.168.1.2
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
no default gate
no DNS servers

Plug in that cross-over.

Now: to make life easy, you can set both computers on the same domain or workgroup, and give each one a unique name (comp1 and comp2 or bob and mary, doesn't matter) tghen turn on your file and printer sharing (all of this is in control panel, or in the options of the folders or printers which you wish to share.

What you ant to do is possible. but TCP/IP is the way to go. you don't need an internet connection to use Internet Protocal.

Answer 4

actually, the IP address is the only way you can connect to a network. The network will identify each computer through each computer IP address. This is very useful when you connect to a network. No IP address would mean that you're not connected on a network.

Answer 5

It is not possible without assigning a static address. The reason behind that is your router has a built-in server to automatically lease IP addresses (called DHCP). Your Windows or Mac computer doesn't have that server. One exception is Linux, which has the option for DHCP server, but then you wouldn't be able to setup easy file sharing. I assume you don't own a license for Windows Server 2000/2003, but if you do, then you can set up DHCP server too.

Answer 6

You could always buy a router and share the printer over the network.

Answer 7

however it will use ip address in your lan..
if you have windows 2003 server or 2000 server you can use dhcp to assign ip automatically..
just use simple ip and subnet mask..
192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
and share your printer from one of them..