OT: Network Help, PLEASE

Hello, please help, my dad and I have always been able to hook up and play some racing sims. But, now we can not connect or even ping each other, it times out. We both have Charter ISP, and we both have XP SP2, with the firewall disabled. I have a router with the ports and DMZ setup. I called Charter they were no help at all. I have checked everything I could think of. If I create a server other people I don't even know connects with no problem, but my dad does not even see it in the list of games. Again, also, now I can not ping him or him/me. Please HELP! I'll cut and paste and ipconfig /all in here if someone will tell me how to get a dos windos to copy. Thanks,

mjones53 wrote in news:y0yod.2038$[email hidden]: > Hello, please help, my dad and I have always been able to hook up and play > some racing sims. But, now we can not connect or even ping each other, it > times out. We both have Charter ISP, and we both have XP SP2, with the > firewall disabled. I have a router with the ports and DMZ setup. I called > Charter they were no help at all. I have checked everything I could think > of. If I create a server other people I don't even know connects with no > problem, but my dad does not even see it in the list of games. > Again, also, now I can not ping him or him/me. Please HELP! > I'll cut and paste and ipconfig /all in here if someone will tell me how to > get a dos windos to copy. Thanks, > > > My first reaction is that it sounds like something has changed with your dad's setup. If other peple can join your races, then it seems to me that there is no problem with your computer. Does your dad see a list of other hosts at all? Can he join one of them? Are the two of you each using your own copy of Windows XP, or did you install the same copy on both machines? (I seem to recall reading that the SP2 had even stronger enforcement of the copy XP protection scheme which would prevent you from connection to each other.) If you used the same copy on both machines, use the second copy on the second machine and re-install XP. I can't think of anything else at the moment.... -- Darryl

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> Hello, please help, my dad and I have always been able to hook up and play > some racing sims. But, now we can not connect or even ping each other, it > times out. We both have Charter ISP, and we both have XP SP2, with the > firewall disabled. I have a router with the ports and DMZ setup. I called > Charter they were no help at all. I have checked everything I could think > of. If I create a server other people I don't even know connects with no > problem, but my dad does not even see it in the list of games. > Again, also, now I can not ping him or him/me. Please HELP! > I'll cut and paste and ipconfig /all in here if someone will tell me how to > get a dos windos to copy. Thanks,

in a dos window right click and it has an option that says something like mark, you can copy and paste that way

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> mjones53 wrote: > > Hello, please help, my dad and I have always been able to hook up and play > > some racing sims. But, now we can not connect or even ping each other, it > > times out. We both have Charter ISP, and we both have XP SP2, with the > > firewall disabled. I have a router with the ports and DMZ setup. I called > > Charter they were no help at all. I have checked everything I could think > > of. If I create a server other people I don't even know connects with no > > problem, but my dad does not even see it in the list of games. > > Again, also, now I can not ping him or him/me. Please HELP! > > I'll cut and paste and ipconfig /all in here if someone will tell me how to > > get a dos windos to copy. Thanks, > > in a dos window right click and it has an option that says something > like mark, you can copy and paste that way >

Easier than that: ipconfig /all >>test.txt This would create a file called test.txt with all info. -- Pete Ives Remove All_stRESS before sending me an email