Networking...

[eightballuiw]

Hello everyone,

Hopefully there is someone out there with a little knowledge on getting a couple of home computers to talk to each other. I have a crossover cable and I wanna have 2 pc's running windows XP home to exchange files but I haven't been able to have any luck with it. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get the to talk to each other without getting a hub and all that jazz. I just wanna use this crossover cable to transfer a folder that is about 15 gb. I have had success with my laptop that is running 2000 and my computer running XP home.

Thanks

[ProfClayton]

Why not just pull the HD out of the one PC and chain it to the other and then transfer the files and then put the HD back?

[nowends]

could be a million things

make sure that each of the computers dont have the default firewall turn on(its crappy DL a good one) and make sure that both computers are on the same workgroup, and make sure that both computers have shared folders.