The two machines seem to see each other. On each machine I open up a CMD box and type ping 192.168.1.1 (for example). After I type this it pings the other machine three times or so and everything's ok. I go to the other machine and type in the same command but with a different IP addy and again everything seems ok.

Now in Doomsday, on machine #1 I tell it to host a game. On the other I tell it to join a game. The appropriate IP addies are put in. The server machine functions like it should. The "join a game" machine acts as if it were just started, as if I had never chosen join a game or any other menu item.

I read somewhere that the TCP and UDP port 13209 needed to be open both ways (?) on each machine. I use Zonealarm on my laptop, not sure what my friend uses.


> My LAN here at home, is with a 8 port switch, and cat5e cables too.
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> My pc is set at 192.168.0.1 and the other is set at 192.168.0.2
> none of them are in a domain.
> i set them with the same workgroup and subnet mask.
> the dns and gateway are not necessary if you're not going to go online into the
> internet, but i would set the dns server to be the other pc (like 192.168.0.2 on
> the first and 192.168.0.1 on the second).
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> and it should work.
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> you can try to see if the computers are pinging each other, they should be.
> after that, you can probably ping them by hostname.
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> Now, i never used doomsday, so i dunno about any specifics for it.
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> But i can go for some Heretic online, if you hook me up with the files.
> Maybe we can play some Doom ?
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> > I want to connect my laptop to a friend's desktop.
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> > I bought a 5 port workgroup switch:
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> > I have two Cat5e cables to connect each PC to the workgroup switch.
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> > Now what do I do? I've tried setting each up with an IP addy and then use
> > Doomsday v1.86 on each. One is set up as a server and the other as client.
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> > Once I think was able to get one PC to 'see' the other but was unable to get
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> > two Doomsdays to talk.
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