Help with hooking up 2 computers via NIC

[airfoil]

I live on the 1st floor of a house that has a wireless router and cable modem on the 2nd floor. I have my desktop hooked up to the router via a wireless conection on the 1st floor.

Question is: Is there a way I can hook up my laptop using a CAT5 cable to my desktop's NIC to connect the laptop to the internet as well? Its a work laptop, and I dont want to buy a PC card for it. If I can do this, I can enjoy a couple of 'work from home' days when the weather turns sour.

Thanks!

 

[ZeroNine8]

set up internet connection sharing of the wireless connection on your desktop, connect your laptop to your desktop via crossover cable. viola! (or get 2 patch cables and a hub/switch instead of the crossover)

 

[airfoil]

Okay, I've connected my laptop to the desktop via a CAT5e crossover cable. Now I find that my laptop has the internet connection wizard grayed out (its an office laptop).

How do I configure the laptop to connect to the desktop, which has the wireless connection at this point? Any ideas folks?

Thanks!

 

[airfoil]

This is how I got it figured out:

1. Got the laptop to look for a workgroup instead of domain.
2. Enabled LAN on desktop and bridged it to the wireless connection.
3. Did a ipconfig /release & renew to redolve a an IP conflict.
4. Thats pretty much it, the next time I tried ipconfig/all, I saw the default gateway and DNS settings configured to my ISPs.

Cool!