XP - Vista Networking

[Sheriff Ice]

I got a new laptop with windows vista and im unable to connected to my old PC with XP on it,

i connected them trough crossover cable via the ethernet card

each one of them say its connected but they cant see each other

i tried all the ways and none is working

any help plz

PS: abt the workgroup stuff i tried it i renamed the workgroup to be same on the computers

[Kingroudy]

go to your firewall settings and set the connection between the 2 pcs to "trusted" (or whatever it is called) (on both pcs). and disable windows firewall.
DONE!

[pouta]

well i tried connecting xp-vista several times.as kingroudy said ..turn off the firewall of ur antivirus and the built-in...if u want play games then its okay u can ..if u want to share files...u need to open the network and sharing center in vista..and allow something called public sharing...then u need to specify for each pc or laptop an IP anything ..and then go to any folder and share it . if u still have probs tell me

[Kingroudy]

if u want play games then its okay u can

hmmm not all games at least. i.e: company of heroes didn't play before i disabled the firewall.
as for the other things, go to the network sharing center of vista and configure everything from there.

[pouta]

eh i know man ..ma i already said inno he has to turn of the firewall..some firewalls are more sensible than others.

[MORPHEUSP]

make sure to put a password for vista if you want to share printers

[Sheriff Ice]

i tried all the things that u just mentioned and i getting the same result i just can connect

[Kingroudy]

turn off the firewalls.
test the cable
ping, can u? what IPs r u using?... give us more details

[Sheriff Ice]

I pinged the IP of the desktop from the laptop im getting 32 ms response

ping from desktop to laptop timed out

i disabled the firewalls on both computers

desktop IP: 192.158.151.12
subnet mask: 255.255.254.0

Laptop IP: 192.158.151.13
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

[Kingroudy]

use 192.168.0.1 |or| 192.168.1.1
and 192.168.0.2 |or| 192.168.1.2
subnet is 255.255.255.0
try without gateways, or set each pc's gateway the same as IP of the other PC
32 ms response on cable networking is TOOOOOOOOOOOOO much.
yalla it should work now