I am having two laptops right now. What I want to do with them is that I have many video file on laptop A, and I want to watch them on laptop B, so what's the way to get access to these files on A from B and fast enough to watch video? And I don't want to copy them over from A to B.
Thanks.
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It's been posted many times:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=29726&highlight=Ad-hoc
To transfer them wirelessly, you need 2 wireless cards. If you don't have wireless cards in each computer, you need to purchase a Ethernet Crossover cable as no regular ethernet cable will work.
What do you mean by not copying the videos on to each computer? The only way im sure of is you need to transfer them over to laptop B. Which means the file from laptop A, will be on laptop B. -
A router is another option.
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Ok, so now I'm trying to connection with a router. My laptop A is connected through a cable, laptop B is connected through the wireless. I ran both the networking setup, but only A can have access to B, and B somehow cannot get access to A, it said I need to permission. So how to gonna do it?
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That's a lot of "trouble" to go through just to NOT have the video file on laptop B.
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Can you see the other laptop on the network?
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yea, A can see both B and itself and access B, but B can just see both A and itself, not having access to A
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Did you share the drive you want access to? Perhaps turning off simple file sharing will help.
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which os do you use on the two laptops?
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both are winxp
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shouldn't be better to leave them enable?
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do you have service pack 2 installed on both laptops?
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all you have to do is set both laptops or computers to be in the same workgroup.
Go to my computer, properties, computer name tab, change name button, and then change your workgroup name to the same name as on your home network. If you're creating a new one then just name it whatever.
After that just set all file sharing on for the folders you will be sharing and that's it.
It should show up in your My Network Places.
Cheers,
Mike
How to connect two laptops?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by fsljff, Jan 14, 2006.