Re: Re: Conntecting to Laptops on XP Pro together

Hi all,

Many thanks for the ideas. For my current situation I think using a
large USB Flash Drive will be the easiest, but for the future I like
the idea of the wireless network for home.

Many thanks to all who replied.

Regards
Robin


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:33:03 -0800, Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:14:43 -0500, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Would you need special cables?  If it's just two PC could you get away with
> > just plugging each end of a CAT-5 cable into the network port of each PC.
> 
> I believe that this can only be done with a "cross-over" cable - one
> of the pairs is reversed as compared to a "straight-through" cable.
> Chances are, wherever one would but a standard Cat5 cable, a
> cross-over can be found for virtually the same $.
> 
> > Granted, you would need to assign IP addresses, do the network config,
> > share the drives, etc. but wouldn't that work for the cabling?  It's not
> > like a serial connection where you need a null modem.  I've considered
> > trying it before but never got around to it.
> 
> I think it is actually pretty easy - there is a wizard to set it up in Win XP.
> 
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