This is bordering on the ridiculous. I have been trying for a week to set up a
network and get nowhere. All I want to do is transfer files (mp3 files of music)
from my desktop to my new laptop. Way too many to burn to CD and transfer. I
gave up on the network and now have tried the File Transfer Wizard. I bought a
crossover cable, which someone recommended to me. It apparently plugs into the
RJ45 ethernet plug on both computers, giving them a direct link to each other.
They're hard wired together. I launch the Windows XP File Transfer Wizard, and
it looks for a serial connection. My laptop has no serial port, only the
ethernet connection. This is why I was told to buy a crossover cable. So I can't
get past that point in the "Wizard". Why can't I comprehend this? The computers
are joined by a cable, I run the Wizard which is supposed to simplify things,
and I find I have the wrong cable connected. How can I transfer files from one
computer to the other without having to sit here and burn over 5,000 files to
CD's? Why won't this "crossover cable" work? Please help. I'm getting desparate.

<rfdjr1@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> This is bordering on the ridiculous. I have been trying for a week to set
> up a
> network and get nowhere. All I want to do is transfer files (mp3 files of
> music)
> from my desktop to my new laptop. Way too many to burn to CD and transfer.
> I
> gave up on the network and now have tried the File Transfer Wizard. I
> bought a
> crossover cable, which someone recommended to me. It apparently plugs into
> the
> RJ45 ethernet plug on both computers, giving them a direct link to each
> other.
> They're hard wired together. I launch the Windows XP File Transfer Wizard,
> and
> it looks for a serial connection. My laptop has no serial port, only the
> ethernet connection. This is why I was told to buy a crossover cable. So I
> can't
> get past that point in the "Wizard". Why can't I comprehend this? The
> computers
> are joined by a cable, I run the Wizard which is supposed to simplify
> things,
> and I find I have the wrong cable connected. How can I transfer files from
> one
> computer to the other without having to sit here and burn over 5,000 files
> to
> CD's? Why won't this "crossover cable" work? Please help. I'm getting
> desparate.
>
Maybe this will help,
http://www.razertech.com/edge/hardwa.../crossover.htm