# Crossover troubles

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crossover-troubles/204960>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 24, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crossover-troubles/204960 "2006-10-24T22:36:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![blazes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@blazes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blazes)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crossover-troubles/204960/1 "2006-10-24T22:36:54Z")

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I have a crossover cable connecting my XP laptop and XP PC and the 1394 connection is connected. But how do I access the files on my computer? sorry, but i’m new to this.

**[COLOR=Red]EDIT: [/COLOR]**[COLOR=Red][COLOR=Black]Got it. I had to change some IP settings.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

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**Author:** ![blazes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@blazes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blazes)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/crossover-troubles/204960/2 "2006-10-24T23:36:50Z")

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Okay, no i’m getting errors saying ’ The following steps of the repair operation failed: Renewing the IP address.’. Anyone?