Windows file sharing via IP addresses?

[Pax]

Hi all,

I went travelling and forgot to bring a software installation disk. I
have a Windows XP desktop machine at home and an XP laptop on the road
with me, and I am wondering, if I have the IP addresses of both
machines, can I set up a file sharing situation between the two to let
me install the software on the laptop from a disk in the CDROM drive in
the home desktop machine? Or is perhaps bittorrent somehow the answer?

Thanks for any help.

 

[De Kameel]

Hi all,

I went travelling and forgot to bring a software installation disk. I
have a Windows XP desktop machine at home and an XP laptop on the road
with me, and I am wondering, if I have the IP addresses of both
machines, can I set up a file sharing situation between the two to let
me install the software on the laptop from a disk in the CDROM drive in
the home desktop machine? Or is perhaps bittorrent somehow the answer?

I would advice to use Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/): a fantastic,
free tool to create a layer-2-VPN over IP: remote computers will see
eachother just like on your LAN. This means you can use Windows File
Sharing over the Internet.
You install Hamachi on the machines which much be connected, and connect
them to the password protected VPN you create. The result is uncredibly
fantastic.

HTH

de Kameel

 

[Kurt]

Hamachi is slower than the 700 year itch. But it's easy to set up. Still, I
wouldn't want to use it to do a remote software install from a local CD.

....kurt