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Okay, first go to each machine and open a command prompt and type "ipconfig" and paste the results here in quote blocks so we can see how each computer is set up.
Second, you don't want to use the IP addresses you told the computers to use. The way that IP addresses work, there are three blocks of "non-routable" addresses - addresses reserved for private networks (such as what you're doing), and so anyone in the world can create their own network with those addresses. All other addresses are "routable," which means that there can potentially be a device on the internet with that address, and routers know how to forward packets of data to it.
The two addresses you chose are routable - some guy in California (according to a whois lookup) owns that entire block of addresses, and so if you connect your computers to the internet with those addresses, Computer A won't know if it should send the packet to Computer B or out across the internet. Just pick 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 as your two addresses and it'll make life easier.
Anyways, back to your questions. Ignore the DHCP reference - it sounds like you're statically assigning the IP addresses. Are either of these computers connected to the internet as well?
First, set up the IP addresses properly for the two computers, turn off any firewalls that may be on (they might block packets and can only confuse us at this point in time), and see if one computer can ping the other. Let us know when you've gotten this far.
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