Puter question...quick!

jumalian · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 7625 City: san diego

I've got my PC connected to my laptop, via a crossover ethernet cable. I've got the IP's set on both to be the same, except of the last number on each computer. One, I have it at "1", and the other set to "2".

Now what? How can I "see" the PC on my laptop? What I'm trying to do is to to connect the PC to the laptop so I can transfer files from PC to laptop. Help!!!

Thanks in advance!

salmon_tacos · Posted: Mar 20, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

So are they connected? I've never used a crossover cable so I'm not sure how that works.

Can you ping one from the other? If so, I guess you're asking about Windows networking. In that case...

At a command prompt, type:

net use * \\<ip address>\c$ /u:Administrator <Administrator password of remote host>

The drive should then show up in Explorer and you can transfer files just as you would on the local host.

toothpick · Posted: Mar 20, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

If you have windows xp you can use ICS described here http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/