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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 7:22 pm
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Originally Posted by windwalker
Use the crossover cable, regardless of how fast your network adapter(s) may be you'll still need a cross over cable

From there you'll need to assign each adapter a static IP address, say 10.2.1.0 and 10.2.1.1 in the same subnet

Share a folder on the machine you're copying from and move all the stuff over.

Don't guess the copy from machine has a DVD or CD burner does it?
It depends on the cards. I wasn't aware of autosensing cards but about 4 hours ago I took a network wire an unplugged it from a machine, stuck it in a switch and ran another wire from the switch to the machine. The switch had no uplink ports. I did *NOT*, however use any crossover cables--the switch figured out the backwards cable and worked with it fine.
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