Sharing files of LAN with XP

[Problem+Solve=Reason]

How can I share some simple music files over my LAN connection. Both computers are running XP home. Thanks....

[TsunamiJoe]

well if theyre semi close together you can use a USB cable, or if you have a highspeed internet you can use XPs remote desktop feature....

[chroot]

TsunamiJoe,

What the heck are you talking about? You -cannot- use a USB cable, because USB does not support peer-to-peer networking. You can have only one host on a USB network. Besides, the machines are already connected together via Ethernet!

And why involve high-speed internet?

All you need to do is:

1) enable filesharing on both PCs
2) share a folder on one (or both)
3) connect to one PC's shares with the other.

Problem, let me know if you don't know how to do any of these steps, and I will explain them in more detail.

- Warren

[TsunamiJoe]

you can send files to another computer through a usb cable, its how i transfered my old computers data to my new one...and that sounds as though all he wants to do...

and i took it as though he was going to make a sort of LAN connection not that he already had one

[Problem+Solve=Reason]

ONe thing, once I make that file can I just search for it (using XP's search) on the computer that I did NOT make the file on? And hows about that mater slave thing, does that pertain to anything at all? Thanks guys.

P.S.- Thanks for the suggestion however the computers are too far apart and I already have LAN hooked up.

[TsunamiJoe]

And hows about that mater slave thing

i dont know what you mean by mater slave...