Networking Laptop to Base Unit
Hi all
I recently had major snags with my main home PC when I flashed the BIOS & it wouldn't play ball after. Thanks everyone for your help, direction & advice, anyway managed to resolve the issue & thought it would be good idea to network home to laptop and copy all relevant files across in case of any other hiccough. I went and got a cross over cable (both units have LAN cards) and tried to run the Network wizard. It all seemed to run OK but it would appear that my laptop can only see itself & the base unit can't see anything. Do I need a Hub or extra soft/hardware or am I trying to do the impossible?
Both PC & laptop have Win XP & all I want to do is copy across various folders th mirror the PC on the laptop. I thought I would be able to do it in explorer as if the laptop was just another hard drive?
As another thought can you connect 2 PCs with a USB cable & copy files that way?
Thanks
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