try disabling all the firewalls on both machines, windows built-in firewall and any firewall you installed.

if the machines are seeing each other, then, there should be no problem playing.
But like i said, i never used doomsday, so i might be missing something.

> 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > and it should work.
> >
> > you can try to see if the computers are pinging each other, they should be.
> > after that, you can probably ping them by hostname.
> >
> > Now, i never used doomsday, so i dunno about any specifics for it.
> >
> > But i can go for some Heretic online, if you hook me up with the files.
> > Maybe we can play some Doom ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > I want to connect my laptop to a friend's desktop.
> > >
> > > I bought a 5 port workgroup switch:
> > >
> > >
> > > I have two Cat5e cables to connect each PC to the workgroup switch.
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> > >
> > > Once I think was able to get one PC to 'see' the other but was unable to get
> > the
> > > two Doomsdays to talk.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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