NT to XPpro using xover cable

I have set up a home network with the following:

1 x PC WINNT with TCP/IP 192.168.0.2 (DNS 192.168.0.1)
1x PC XPPRO with TCP/IP 192.168.0.1 (DNS 192.168.0.1)

Workgroup = Homenet
XP PC = WINXP
NT PC = WINNT

Shares all configured.
I have used a Xover cable....correctly wired.
XP machine shows a 10mb link...sends but does not receive packets. Cannot ping either machine from either machine. Can ping own machine on each...get reply OK. Firewall is disabled.


When browsing network on NT get "Homenet Cannot connect to servers currently unavailable for this workgroup" or something similar.

No event problems on NT


Any Idea's anyone Please ???

how did you install the network card on nt, and did you set your nt machine to the same workgroup as xp, xp by default usually uses MSHOME ,nt uses WORKGROUP. been a while but when you go to network options in control panel and install a card click have disk and either have the driver on floppy or on the hard disk, can make it install from cd but is a pain. after it has the right info for the card and the right workgroup, should be ready to go.

If you can't ping in either direction, maybe your crossover cable is bad or there is a hardware problem. You won't be able to browse anything across the network until you get basic connectivity between the two machines.

Just in case you want to double-check your connections:

http://www.linksys.com/faqs/default.asp?fqid=20

My Cable seems fine .... I crimped it myself and it seems to be OK..it certainly shows as connected on the WINXP machine with a 10mbps link. I may try a mini hub with 2 straight through cables just as a test though.
Both the PC's are in the workgroup called "homenet" which I have set. The WINNT net card is a NE2000 clone but has worked fine on another network. I have uninstalled completely the network on NT and reinstalled it so I cannot think whats going wrong from here on??? any more Idea's