I was called in to work on the PCs in my wife's business...
It transpired that her twit of a partner had connected the server PC to the workstation PC with a patch cable instead of a crossover cable. What blew me away was that it actually worked. Well, it worked about as well as Windows built-in CD writer software - in that it mostly worked. I'd wondered why the networking was a little strange but had not needed to investigate.
Anyway, just to let you know, XP can work with a patch lead instead of a crossover - even though it does not do so well.
It transpired that her twit of a partner had connected the server PC to the workstation PC with a patch cable instead of a crossover cable. What blew me away was that it actually worked. Well, it worked about as well as Windows built-in CD writer software - in that it mostly worked. I'd wondered why the networking was a little strange but had not needed to investigate.
Anyway, just to let you know, XP can work with a patch lead instead of a crossover - even though it does not do so well.