To bring this back to earth wrt the original question
Unless 'bringiton' HAS a wifi connection, OR already has an ethernet card/connection OR wants to have a back-up extrernal USB drive by far the cheapest and easiest option is the connection cable I and others have mentioned. Once installed, just connect and run the installed programme on BOTH machines, no fiddling with sharing, IPs or anything else. It really does work a treat.
