Laptop to Laptop

[SyCD]

If i connected two laptops with a cat 5 cable can i access all the data from one on the other?

Is there programs i need to download in order to do this or is it built in vista?

Sy

Ps its an XP laptop and a vista laptop.

 

[daviebroon]

^ i wanna know that too.... but from base unit to laptop

 

[FiDoDiDo]

The cable would have to be a cross over cable and then it will be fine, might find it easier to assign a manual IP address though.

 

[SyCD]

How would I assign an Ip address? I'm not very good with things like that.

Sy

 

[JackoR26]

Vista Link

XP Link

Full guide on how to do it and how it works

 

[SyCD]

Cheers Jacko, Will set to work on it now.

Sy

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Those links are for ICS and at least the first one uses a hub which isn't going to be used by you SyCD.

Get to this stage:

For the properties of the Internet Protocol you need to for example have one as 192.168.0.1 and the other computer as 192.168.0.2. They both should be on the same workgroup also, the default is something like MSHOME or WORKGROUP.