Need help transferring using direct cat6 cable

[winty03]

Hello,

I am looking for help and/or a how to transfer a lot of files (pictures, about 15GB) from a laptop running xp to a mbp running of course OS X leopard using a Cat6 cable connected directly to each (read Mac's auto sense the traffic and switch to cross-over cable mode). I know I need to do some configuring of the machine to see each other. Just have been searching and haven't found anything here or googling. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[tony4d]

Do you not have a hub, switch, or router with 2 or more ports? Would be a lot easier. No need to use cat6 btw, cat5 with all 4 twisted pairs crimped will be fine for gigabit speeds.

 

[TEG]

Setup IP addresses in the same range on the same subnet

e.g.

XP - 192.168.0.1
OS X - 192.168.0.2
Subnet (both) - 255.255.255.0

Turn on sharing of the C drive on the XP machine, and it should appear on the Mac, then all you need to do is enter the username and password of the XP machine.

TEG

 

[winty03]

Thanks for the quick replys..the Cat6..is because I just have a short 5ft cable easily available. Yes I have a time capsule (in my sig.)..but this was away from my network, just the 2 computers and a cat cable. Thanks TEG I will give that a try.

 

[winty03]

It took about 5 mins for the computers to broadcast..but once it broadcast TEG's method worked and was very fast! Thanks!