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Update. I fucked around with it a while more, and I finally got it to work after all the firewalls were disabled, THEN I reconifigured it a few more times (it didn't work as soon as I turned them off, oh no... that'd be too easy). Unfortunately, there are two major problems as the network is now: first, no firewall of any sort. No good.
Second, the reason I was setting up the network in the first place, to play games with my sister, STILL doesn't work. When this PC hosts, the other one can see it, but it can't connect, because the game is restricted to Class 3 clients. When the other hosts, this one doesn't even see it (on a LAN).
This leads me to believe that the IP addresses assigned by my cable company (dynamic) are fooling the computers into thinking that this one is on a LAN, but the other one is not local. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about this to fix it. Any suggestions? What I was thinking of trying was manually setting IPs in a certain range, but I don't know how to do that, and I don't know if I could do that with my internet connection. Any help guys?
And I know I should buy XP Pro. And I know I should buy a router. But I'm in college (read: poor). Stop taunting me.
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