From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:52:50 -0800, Randall Parker  wrote:

>How do I configure them to use a common protocol? Its not clear to me where
one
>goes to do that.

I see from the discussion below that both machines have TCP/IP installed,
so we don't need to go any further with this.
>
>Also, why do they need to be in the same subnet?

Because PC IP stacks don't route.

>My NT box is at 207.105.135.10
>and I can't ping it from the Win2k machine. I can ping the NT machine from
>another NT machine though. The Win2k machine is at 192.168.0.25 with a subnet
>mask of 255.255.255.0. So is no stuff getting routed out that port when I ping
>the NT machine? The ping fails very rapidly rather than waiting for a
response.
>Maybe the OS knows it has no place to send the ping to. Should I change it to
a
>different address that is closer to the NT machine's address?

I think that's your problem.  Change your NT machine to an unused address
in the same subnet, e.g, 192.168.0.50, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

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