Vista wired LAN problem

I am trying to connect my new Vista Home PC with my work XP PC in order to
share some files and a USB modem connected internet link (on the Vista PC).

I am using an ethernet to ethernet cable which has previously worked with my
old XP PC and the same work PC. For some reason, I cannot get my Vista PC to
allocate any IP addresses (you can tell I'm not very good with network
settings...). I don't have a router to use as a DNS, the PCs have been in the
same workgroup but it made no difference. I can ping localhost on the Vista
PC.

There is no nice wizard to set up a wired connection on Vista, just
wireless, dialup, VPN or connect to the internet. Grrrrrr.

Any ideas ?

Posting the results of ipconfig /all on both computers may help.

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"Dorftrottel" <Dorftrottel.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to connect my new Vista Home PC with my work XP PC in order to
> share some files and a USB modem connected internet link (on the Vista
> PC).
>
> I am using an ethernet to ethernet cable which has previously worked with
> my
> old XP PC and the same work PC. For some reason, I cannot get my Vista PC
> to
> allocate any IP addresses (you can tell I'm not very good with network
> settings...). I don't have a router to use as a DNS, the PCs have been in
> the
> same workgroup but it made no difference. I can ping localhost on the
> Vista
> PC.
>
> There is no nice wizard to set up a wired connection on Vista, just
> wireless, dialup, VPN or connect to the internet. Grrrrrr.
>
> Any ideas ?