Can i connect my laptop to my desktop?

Question

Is it possible to connect my desktop to my laptop, i have firewire and would love to download data from my pc on to my laptop

Answer 1

Yes, if you have xp, go to make a create a home network, it will show you various set ups. Then it will prompt you to make a disc, the disc is a setup program for your laptop, so they will be in sync. You can connect with various cords, just look at the diagrams XP shows you.

Answer 2

If your laptop is a Mac, then you can boot it in target disk mode, which makes it act like a FireWire hard drive. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583 . Otherwise, network the two computers with an Ethernet cable or a wireless network. Then you can turn on file sharing so the two computers can read and write to each other's volumes (how you do this depends on your operating system).

Answer 3

If you have firewire on both machines, you should be able to use the 1394 connection in your network connections. The easiest way to test this is hook the firewire into both computers, then shre the folder on one computer and see if you can see that share (let me know if you need more detailed help)...

Answer 4

yes, i have sucessfully connected 2 laptops together using a firewire cable.

I was using WinXP on both machines and to get them to recognise eachother on a network I had to manually set the IP addresses. Plug the cable in both machines and power up.

Open "My Network Places" and then "View Network Connections" in left hand menu-bar. Right click on the firewire connection (usually called '1394 connection') click "properties" and then double-click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)".

Under the "General" tab, click the button marked "Use the following IP address". Enter an IP address of your choice. As a workable example 192.177.121.1 will work. Let the subnet mask set itself to 255.255.255.0

On the other machine, set the IP address to 192.177.121.2

They SHOULD (tongue in cheek) now be able to recognise eachother. Remember to set up file sharing on both machines, and share the folders you want to access.

If they can't find eachother (looking in "My Network Places") try disabling or lowering the settings on your firewall to something less barbaric than "f**k all's getting in", and you should see results!

Good luck, hope my advice works... :-)

Answer 5

Why would you want to connect your laptop to your desktop? Do you mean an internet connection which would be possible if you have the appropriate modem in your laptop.

Answer 6

(a million) considering your laptop already have instantaneous LAN, then purchase USB wifi to your computing device (see link for advert-HOC connection). or; (2) If the two have RJ45 connectors, purchase a bypass-OVER LAN cable (in case you go with for to connect with out HUB. in case you have hub, then it may be directly and not bypass-over). Set their respective IPs. If you could actually hook up with the internet and desire to connect the different to the internet regardless of out ROUTER use a proxy server like FREEPROXY.

Answer 7

If they are both Windows-based, you can create a peer to peer network using a crossover ethernet cable. If you have WinXP on at least one of the machines, all you need to do is run the Network wizard, and you'll be fine!!!!!

Answer 8

Yes - the appropriate software is included with windows. Just look up wireless networking in 'Help.'

Answer 9

if you have a wireless network you could just add the files you need to be transfered into the sharing folder. Its that easy

Answer 10

if you have a docking station easy