Re: How do I connect my PC and laptop using a crossover cable?

This is different depending on whether you have XP Pro or XP Home. And
depending on your current configuration of each OS.

However... for the purposes of this discussion, I will assume you have XP
Home on both machines in the default out-of-the-box configuration (simple
file sharing enabled).

1) Connect the PCs with one cross-over cable (as someone else said, many new
NICs will auto-adjust to whatever cable is in use - but without this
auto-adjustment capability, you will need a cross-over cable).

2) As someone else said, make sure they are on the same network (go into the
TCP/IP config of each machine and set IP and mask to same network -
192.168.1.1 on one, 192.168.1.2 on the other and Mask of 255.255.255.0 will
work).

3) Go to each PCs System Properties (right-click My Computer and choose
Properties) and choose Computer Name | Change | Select Workgroup and type in
the same Workgroup name for each PC.

4) After steps 1-3, reboot them both. Open explorer on each machine and
right-click on the C drive and choose sharing and security. Set to share the
C drive of each PC. (give each PC share the same name - something like
cdrive).

5) Go to Windows Explorer on one (or both) PCs and pull down the Tools menu
and choose "Map Network Drive". In the Folder field type
\\otherPCname\cdrive and click on Finish. You should see the other machine's
C drive come up in the Explorer window.

-Frank

<tom.s.smith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1159264341.972056.257270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I've recently bought a new laptop which I'd like to connect to my PC so
that I can copy my music collection across. It's about 12GB so the only
feasible (I think) solution is by a direct connection. I've bought a
CAT5e crossover ethernet cable; both machines are running XP SP2; and
as far as I know both have the appropriate network cards; but I'm
stumped as to what I should do next.

I have Googled extensively but every site I find seems to regard this
as something laughably easy; the built-in help in XP seems to have no
information concerning direct connections, only concerning small
networks using a hub/router. I'd be very grateful if someone could
point me in the direction of a step-by-step guide to setting up a
direct connection and transferring files, or else to a newsgroup where
I could get that kind of help.

I'm sorry if my technical descriptions aren't quite right ("direct
connection" seems a bit vague to me, to begin with...); although I'm by
no means a computer novice, networking is something I've never done
before. Thanks in advance -


Tom Smith



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