cross cable connection next to LAN connection

[Guest]

At the moment I have a small home network (100 Mb/s) with 6 PC's connected to
it.
One of this PC's is functioning as a file server.
Often I have to transfer files to and from the file server to PC 1.

In my file server I have now two network cards:
- one 100 Mb/s for connection to the LAN and for connection to the internet
(gateway server)
- one 1 Gbyte/s for cross cable connection to PC 1.

In PC 1 I also have two network connections used in the same way as the file
server. So one connection attached to LAN (for internet and connection to the
other PC's and one connection for the cross cable connection to the file
server.

Now, how can I make sure when I copy files from PC 1 to the file server and
the other way around that it uses the cross cable connection and not the LAN
connection? in other words how can I manage this in Windows XP?

 

[Guest]

I guess you could use the IP address associated with the NIC you want instead
of using the name of the machine when sending/copying files