Network 2 Laptops
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Topic: Network 2 Laptops
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Network 2 Laptops
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 2:38pm
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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. Thanks. |
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 4:52pm
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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. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 5:19pm
| I'll start to mess around with it soon and let ye know how i get on! |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:46pm
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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
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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 9:20am
Standard network cable ok? |
the boss wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 9:44am
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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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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 31 July 2006 at 7:44pm
| Anyone have a URL that could me out with this? |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 01 August 2006 at 6:59am
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http://www.google.com - http://www.google.com i bet you that you can find over 100,000 pages with network tips. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 01 August 2006 at 9:05am
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Amateur, everybody here keeps saying cross-over cable, so make sure your cable is crossed-over, this is not your standard cable, on a cross over scenario the send wire on one side is the receive on the other and vice versa, so make sure you buy a cross-over network cable (RJ45), if you have a hub it does the swaping for you.
Continuing, assuming you have a cross-over cable, plug it to both computers, make sure both have TCP/IP and use local IPs (192.168.1.1 / 2) like the boss said, this makes it simpler, then just for the sake of transfering files, disable firewalls and any other piece of software that might block communication.
Open Windows Explorer, and right click on your C drive, from the pop up menu, select Sharing and Security... and share the C drive, give the share a name, and press OK. Now make sure both computers are part of the same workgroup, doesn't matter if you have the same user account, as you will be asked for credentials.
Now, still in Windows Explorer, down the bottom on the folders list (left side), go into (expand) My Network Places > Entire Network > Microsoft Windows Network > Workgroup > Your computers are listed here (this may be slow sometimes Windows takes time to broadcast it's shares), you should see your computer names listed there, expand a computer, and you should see your shared drives, expand it and you will either see the files, or asked for user/pass to access it, that's it, now you can access the other computer easily.
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