Noob Network Q's

[Rikwaller]

Hello All.

I have spent the last 3 hours attempting to set a crude network between my two laptops. I have some MP3's on my old laptop which i want to get on my new laptop. I have managed to network the two, but I can only ping the second laptop about 33 % of the time.

When I am transfering music, I get the message the the network address is now unknown ( something like that ), so I assume that the connection is being dropped.

It is a simple set up via crossover cable.

Can anybody shed any light on this ?

Thanks for your help

Simon

 

[T180985]

should just need to use a crossover cable between them and if this is all you have you definantly shouldnt be getting any dropped packets. whats the make and model of your old laptop? i have an old dell c400 and the network card is pretty crappy giving me dropped packets quite often

 

[antc]

you have any security enabled on either of the computers and have you enabled simple file sharing ???