Afternoon all.
Many thanks for all your replies and suggestions! I haven't been around for the weekend, hence my late post in reply...... my apologies.
Yes, the desktop runs from an ADSL router. The router is the one connected via a cable to the splitter in the telephone socket. The PC is an Advent, circa 2003/4, but still quite nippy!
The laptop does indeed have a RJ45 port. Laptop is a Gateway MA3, circa 2007.
What I want to do is share the connection and be able to transfer files across the two computers. Therefore, if I read your suggestions correctly, the easiest and most cost effective way of me to do this would be via a standard RJ45 cable then? Bearing in mind this is only going to be a short-term way of doing things, for convenience, and thus cheapest!
Thank you once more.