networking win2k machine to Xp machine on domain w/xover cable

[stsmith]

Hi,

I'm a teacher at a small public school and I'm trying to set up an older (Cel500 w/128 megs ram) for my kids. I'm specifically wanting to install the West Point bridge building software on it along with OpenOffice and onther freeware apps. I put a copy of win2k on that I own myself since I no longer have it installed on my home machine - so, yes, I'm legal!! Some students from the technology class made me a 15' xover cable and I have it connected to my (XP) teacher workstation after adding a second nic to the XP machine. I can ping each machine from the other but haven't been able to do anything actually useful, yet.

There are two components to my problem:

1. The school system technology coordinator is very uncooperative in allowing the use of technology outside narrowly defined parameters. This is an extreme undertatement, but further explaination would serve no purpose. I can expect no help from him and quite frankly expect that he will raise holy hell when he discovers I have installed a second nic in the teacher workstation in an attept to connect the student machine to it.

2. I need to transfer files from the teacher station to the student station. Sharing the internet connection might be nice, but isn't necessary. With no CD burner on the teacher station, I have no way to transfer files back and forth. Is there any technique/application/etc. that I can use to connect the second nic to the student station without hosing the network settings of the primary nic? Internet connection sharing most certainly does this (hosing) and I cannot afford not to be connected to the school network (posting attendance, email, etc.)

Well, that's it. Both machines have USB, so maybe that is the way to go if the network method is unworkable.

Any suggestions you have would be appreciated,

Sincerely,

Steve

 

[mbackof]

If you can ping the studnet machine, you are well on your way. You should be able to open Windows explorer on the student machine and right click on the hard drive or folder you want to share. Click on Sharing and use the share this folder/drive setting and type in a share name. You should be able to go to the security tab and make sure that the everyone group has full control checked. Then you should be able to go to start--> run on the toolbar and type in \\ipstudentmachine\sharename. This should open the folder in windows on the teacher machine if the permissions are set correctly. Then you can cut and paste the files to the student machine. Note that this doesn't give the student machine connectivity to the internet, but you can get files there.

 

[Kelemvor]

Is this a one time file transfer or something you will need there permanently? If it's one time only just use some sort of USB Drive or something. Otherwise if you are having trouble you could temporarily disable the original NIC on the main PC to insure that when you try to reach the other one it's not looking down the wrong pipe.

 

[stsmith]

I would prefer a permanent setup so I can get updates to win2k; i.e. I burned Open office on a CD from home and brought it to school but win2k wouldn't install because it needed to update the installer! I can always disable the network connection from my workstation if I need to disable intenet access. I have thought about settng up a freeware proxy on my teacher station, perhaps using an odd port for http and seing if the student browser can be set to use it. The assistant tech guy at school is okay and I'm thinking about talking to him "off the record" about it. It's just that the second nic can royally screw your network settings if you don't watch it.