PC-to-PC netwroking

[KBTibbs]

My friend needs to back up a bunch of stuff (gigs of data -- word docs, mp3s, and video files) to a second computer.

She doesn't have a medium large enough to do this with (she's got floppies).

I recommended to her that she buy a patch/crossover cable so she could network the two and transfer the files quickly.

She is going to purchase the patch cable, and I offered to help her with the settings, but I just realized, I've never done a direct pc to pc network before.

I imagine that so long as they have unique names and are inthe same workgroup they should be fine, am I correct? If I'm not, does anyone have any a link to a page with good instructions I can give her? Unfortunately she lives a good long ways away so I can't do this for her.

Thanks in advance!

 

[JackMDS]

These are the Network options.

Direct Connect - http://www.ezlan.net/direct.html

Otherwise for less than $100 she can buy a Giga USB flash drive and do few transfers on her own.

:sun:

 

[wseyller]

Need to know which operating system it is.

 

[BlitzRommel]

After she buys the crossover cable, here's some configuration settings that'll help.

She'll want an IP of 10.0.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Leave everything else blank.

For the computer she's transferring data to:

IP: 10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Leave everything else blank.

From her computer, she'll want to open up Explorer and enter the following address:

//10.0.0.2/C$

If it prompts for username/password, then enter it in for the target computer. If logon's successful, drag-n-drop.

These are just very GENERAL steps and YMMV depending on what OS's the PCs are running. If NT/2000/XP, then it should work fine, barring any special permissions set for anything or what0not.