On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:55 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2005 07:47 am, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
Now that at home I've got both a desktop and a laptop, I have to transfer some data from the desktop to the laptop. The crude way I do that is to send the file from my desktop to a server and then download it from the server on my laptop. Actually as the server is a goverment network, I do not have access to the server from my laptop (I sould install VPN to do that as I have on my desktop) therefore I append the file to an e-mail sent to an account I can open on either cnmputer.
Is there a more elegant/less cumbersome way to transfer data between two physically very close computers ?
Maura:
I thnk you're asking for how to *connect* these computers instead of the commands used to pass the data. I may be mistaken.
There are two ways to connect them:
1) A single network cable between the two. This cable must be what they call a "cross over" cable which is specially wired to connect two network cards directly.
2) Use a network hub, or a router (which is usually also a hub) and make yourself a home network.
More data once we find out exactly what your question is.
Another possibility is a USB pen drive. Cheers, Dave