connecting two computers

  I have a two computer,one is a very old 486DX100,another is a k6-2 475.Although several times I have connected them with print port or cable,I have spent almost half a day to connect them together recently.Why?I have forgotten some key steps.Below are some steps of connecting these two computer with cable which k6-2 has got two net card and windows2000 OS,Dx100 has got one net card and windows97 OS.

  1.install these three network card correctly;

  2.close the firewall software in k6-2 computer;(I am using rising personal firewall,this will forbid the connecting of computers if we set it in the highest security level,but I have not tested on other security level,just only close it.)

  3.k6-2 computer must open an accout for the visit of dx100(or open the Guest accout,I have not opened this accout for security reason);

  4.dx100 must login with the accout which seted in k6-2 computer;

  5.set the computer name and group for two computer,the group of these two computer are same.Set the internal network IP address for two computer,these two IP must be in the same sub network(with the same sub network forbid code子网屏蔽码);

  5.sharing internet connecting:

  I used sygate4.0 to finish this.

  1)install the sygate on k6-2 computer as a server.set the out going as "dial",and interal connect as the second network card which connecting dx100;

  2)install the sygate on dx100 as a client and set the proxy sever as k6-2;