I have a desktop and a laptop, both with XP, for some reason I cannot set up
a network or get the computers to talk to eachother at all. All I want to do
is transfer files. I have an ethernet cable as told to buy in PC WORLD. I
run the network set up wizard on both computers, still nothing.

Any ideas?

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:41:22 -0800, "Wils" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have a desktop and a laptop, both with XP, for some reason I cannot set up
>a network or get the computers to talk to eachother at all. All I want to do
>is transfer files. I have an ethernet cable as told to buy in PC WORLD. I
>run the network set up wizard on both computers, still nothing.
>
>Any ideas?

Did you get a Cross-Over Ethernet cable? A straight-thru aka Patch cable won't
work here.
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