When connecting two computers together you need a crossover cable.
They are often yellow and have a sticker saying "crossover". The
standard (grey) cable will not work.
Er, the OP did actually say he has a crossover cable.
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You need to assign each machine an Ip address. Right click network
neighbourhood, click properties, in the configuration tab scroll down and
find where it says TCP/IP -> <your network card>, click properties,
assign one of your machines as IP 192.168.1.1 and put subnet mask to
255.255.255.0. On the other machine do the same but put the IP address as
192.168.1.2
Hope this helps.
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If all you want to do is share files, the best approach is to use a USB
cable.
Advantages include low cost (about $30), easy to use (just plug it into both
computer's USB ports, even while the computers are on) and no hassles to
configure (in fact nothing to configure, the drivers are supplied in a
floppy as well as the connection software, which looks like two copies of
explore, one for the laptop, one for the desktop.)
Here are a couple of links:
http://www.csensors.com/smart-linq.html
http://www.csensors.com/ulk003.html
http://www.connectworld.net/iec/adp3181.html
http://www.lpt.com/Products/HomeNetworkingAndLowCostICS/homenetworkingandlow
costics.htm
http://www.csensors.com/bf100c.html
This is where windows xp shines over all others. Its much much easier to do
this with windows xp's connectivity wizard. When I first bought my laptop,
it came with win98se. I wanted to xfer all my files from my desktop to my
laptop (so that I could get rid of the desktop). My desktop had winxp and
it was easy to set up the transfer from that side. Unfortunately Win98se
wasn't so kind and I actually ended up wiping win98se to winxp so that I
could do the transfer. I'm sure I would have figured it out eventually, but
installing a new os did the trick for me.
jason
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is it not?
jason
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