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your problem is most likely the fact you are not on the same network. Just because you plugged in a crossover cable does not mean that you are networked.. The cable is the first step.. The cable is your physical connection. You now need to move up the chain by giving your computers an ip address and subnet mask. Since this is computer to computer and you dont intend to leave the network you do not need a gateway, Both computers will need to be given an ip address and the same subnet mask. The reason you can plug a cable into a pc and a router is because the router has what is called a dhcp server. The dhcp server provides any computer connected to it an ip and subnet and whatever else it needs to send out. On one computer i would set the ip address to 192.168.0.2 and the other to 192.168.0.3 and use the subnet mask 255.255.255.252 for both.
If you have any questions/concerns dont hesitate to post back.
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