Thread: Why has it got to be so damn hard to connect 2 computers!?

^I agree for those not computer or network savvy - it is a bit much to ask for. However if you have VISTA - really simple.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

some people shouldn't be left next to a computer without a special permit

How very profound and so very very funny.

Really I am quite capable at resolving most of life little irks, but Microsoft have a special knack of confusing the heck out of me.

If only I was perfect.

^must be butterfy's lady boy experience that makes him so special.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Microsoft have a special knack of confusing the heck out of me.

that's a given, only a newbie or a naive user would read anything from MS !!!

If your computers aren't ancient then the chance is that at least one of them has automatic polarity detection on its ethernet port in which case a straight cable works equally well.

Originally Posted by baldrick

can you ask more difficult questions next time - this one is barely worth the effort to type a reply to

What is the difference between passive and active FTP?

Do try and keep it simple

Are you on xp or vista ?

are they both connected to a wireless network ?

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

What is the difference between passive and active FTP?

very easy question, maybe I can answer that one

it has to do with incoming ports being opened on the server side rather than client side,

NEXT !!!

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

What is the difference between passive and active FTP?

why do you ask this question ?

does 16 bits , or 2^16 mean 0-65535 to you ?

transferring files between 2 computers via FTP is faster than the windows share method.

and active and passive FTP - active the client opens/listens on a dynamic port ( between 1025-65535 ) passive , the server opens/listens on a dynamic port.

Originally Posted by baldrick

and active and passive FTP - active the client opens/listens on a dynamic port ( between 1025-65535 ) passive , the server opens/listens on a dynamic port.

No offense here, but is that actually in English?

Originally Posted by BigRed

Are you on xp or vista ?

are they both connected to a wireless network ?

Oooh Ooh! I know this one.

I'm on XP and they are both connected to a wireless network. Yes.

Why?

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

I'm on XP and they are both connected to wireless network. Yes.

Easy then.

sharing files xp network - Google Search

XPhome or XPpro ?


the reason I ask is because default workgroup for XPhome is Home and default workgroup for XPpro is workgroup - and if you want to use that windows filesharing smegma you need to have the same workgroup..

what firewalls are running on both machines also ?

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Damn, damn, shite, feck and blast!!!

Jeeezes H all I want to do is link my two laptops so I can share files.

Simple? You'd like to think so wouldn't you?

It is with Mac.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Why can't i just plug them together and get on with it...?

You can with a Mac.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

I know I need a network hub, it's only took me about three hours of getting my balls busted by Microsoft to find that out, why, why...!?

I just string my Macs together with a network cable, or even just use the wireless for them to see each other - though setting up your own mini network at your house is generally a good idea, from a simple management common sense point of view.

Originally Posted by lom

It is simple, it's only you making it unnecessarily complicated.
You don't need a hub/router/firewall , only a network cable connected between their network ports.

WRONG!

While Macs have auto-negotiating network ports that can detect a cross-over connection(i.e. you CAN do what you suggested on Macs), most PCs have simple network ports that require either a network hub (slightly expensive) or the use of a cross-over cable (usually orange colored ethernet network cables marked 'crossover').

These are needed as a computer to computer connection requires the wires to be inversed on one end of the cable in order to permit a connection -- like I said, the vast majority of PCs will not have intelligent ethernet ports that auto-detect this. Some recent PCs do. All recent Macs do.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

I'm on XP and they are both connected to a wireless network. Yes.

should be really easy then. Try one of the links from the Google search MtD posted. If you want to keep them synchronised use windows briefcase Windows XP The Official Magazine

Getting file sharing and printer sharing on XP has been a nemesis of mine for many years.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes one works and the other doesn't, sometimes everything works for months and months and then one day it stops working and never works again.