Recaro

My mates just got broadband and Im about to buy a laptop for work and stuff. He's going to download movies and music, could i link my laptop up to his PC and save a movie he downloaded on his PC to my hard drive?? How would I do this??

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

well first off, downloading movies and music is illegal, if it is copyrighted material.

do you live in the same house as your mate? how often will u want to copy stuff? details details please

Recaro

Yes we are flat mates.

Chris_S199

There are a few ways, but the best way will probably be to network the computers together. Unfortunately, PCMCIA Ethernet cards are not that cheap, what's your budget?

super_si

I do it at home mate! easiest was is share the hard drive but i dunno if lap tops use IDE connections for external **** etc..

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

get two network cards and a cross over cable.
install tcpip
place in workgroup
ip lap 1: 10.0.0.1
subnet: 255.0.0.0

ip lap 2: 10.0.0.2
subnet: 255.0.0.0

right click on your c: drives, go to sharing, and enable it, call the share: cdrive , do the rest for the other drives (can be whatever u like)

on each lap1, right click on network neighbour hood, click add network drive, attach X: to \\10.0.0.2\cdrive

on each lap2, right click on network neighbour hood, click add network drive, attach X: to \\10.0.0.1\cdrive

suba

or you can get a laplink-type parallel cable and use windows direct connection to copy files between computers. be warn that this is gonna be super slow. for a bit faster would be a laplink-type USB cable.

the NIC with cross over cable is as good. btw, you can install NetBIOS/NetBEUI protocol to connect 2 PCs together with a cross over cable. then no need to user dummy IP address.

super_si

thats road kill for the sake of a film swap hard drives surly?

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

yes but netbui isn't as fast as tcp/ip.

for optimal speeds i would suggest my way