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    Posted: 19 July 2006 at 2:38pm
I wonder could someone help me. I have just purchased a new laptop and want to transfer documents, files etc from my old laptop to the new one. I have a network cable attached to both (peer to peer setup) and i am enquirying how difficult it is to configure both to allow the transfer.

Any help, links etc would be appreciated.

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Haven't done that in a while but I think for direct connection between 2 computers you need a cross-over cable (usually yellow). If you have a switch, just hook'em up and share your drive on the old manchine. To make it easy, make sure they are both in the same workgroup and you have i.e. the account Amateur with the same PW on both computers.
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I'll start to mess around with it soon and let ye know how i get on!
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its quite easy..

connect both laptops with cross over cable

give one of them IP address 192.168.1.1 and second one 192.168.1.2 there is no need for default gateway or dns or anything else

subnet can be 255.255.255.0
 
make sure ur xp firewall allows file sharing.. make a shared folder and grant access to everyone

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Originally posted by the boss the boss wrote:

connect both laptops with cross over cable


Standard network cable ok?
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Unless you are going through a hub or a switch you would need a cross over network cable.
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Anyone have a URL that could me out with this?
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http://www.google.com

i bet you that you can find over 100,000 pages with network tips.
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