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socrates

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Networking Two Pc's And An Xbox
« on: February 26, 2003, 08:04:00 AM »
Please....please....give me a clue....i had it all....and then i through it away like a cheap hooker.....i have two comps now and a xbox with an original HD in it,i have no mives or music on it, i would like to stream movies and music off of my PC'S......i can get them t ostream from the P3 but not the P2......now to through a monkey wrench into this....i have no hub or router, i ma using a crap load if NIC cards and cross over cables....so i have the inter net going into the P3 and the xbox going into the P3 and then a crossover cable going from the P3 to the P2.....im sharing The internet with the P2 and files too...so how do i get the xbox to access the P2 going through the P3....??....does your head hurt too?
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007jamesbond

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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2003, 09:42:00 AM »
blink.gif   no idea sorry  sad.gif
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DiNapXbox

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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2003, 10:19:00 AM »
If you're hooking 3 network devices together using crossover cables, you're going to have trouble getting all 3 to talk to each other.  Basically you have 2 separate networks (P2 <-> P3 and P3 <-> Xbox).  Internet connection sharing makes this even more complicated.  I would strongly suggest that you at least get a hub; this will greatly simplify the layout of your network.

If you CAN get everyone talking together (most likely with the hub), here's what you would do:

- Map network drives on the P3 that connect to shared folders on the P2.
- Add the network drives/paths to RelaX.

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work.  RelaX should see the mapped drives as local, and Windows networking will handle the rest.
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socrates

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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2003, 11:17:00 AM »
Thanks guys, i got it working belive it or not, i still want to grab a router and will but this will do for now....my head hurts now....gunna go take a break.
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2003, 12:23:00 PM »
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having 2 network cars in 1 pc
totally screws your network......
winXP doesn't know WTF to do with it.


I have 2 NIC's in my PC, one connects a hub (and the rest of my network) the other goes directly to my xbox via a crossover cable, no problem what so ever, XP handles everything fine and knows exactly what to do, it's not even neccesary to reboot if you make a change!

Not knowing how to set up a network is what's most likely to screw it up.....
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