Re: Networking PCs

Bruce F wrote:

> I have a PC and a Laptop which are netwoked together via a crossover
> cable. The PC is the Host and the Laptop the Guest.
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1. What would be involved in changing the Laptop to the host. Whould
> I have to remove the current network somehow and create a new one with
> Network Wizard, or can I change the current network somehow?


Although you may think of one as the host and the other as the guest, in a
Windows workgroup (the kind of network you undoubtedly have in a
two-computer network with a crossover cable) these terms are meaningless.
This is a peer-to-peer network, with both computers having equal status.
There's nothing to change.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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