Re: [PCTECH] Re: Conntecting to Laptops on XP Pro together

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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Tom Jedrzejewicz
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