How to connect laptop to a Desktop PC

ramakanta said:

To create a LAN network using a crossover cable, we just need a crossover (Cross crimped RJ45 / CAT5) cable and a LAN (Ethernet) card in both computers. Most computer motherboards have onboard ethernet these days.
First of all, we connect the cross crimped ethernet cable in the LAN RJ45 ports of both the computers.
Now we start with configuring the computers

PC1:
1. Just right-click “My Computer” and click Properties.
2. Select the “Computer Name” tab and click the “Change” button.
3. Change the computer name to whatever you want, here we name it PC1. Change the workgroup to WG. (The workgroup name should be the same in both computers)
4. Click OK.

Now, to configure the TCP/IP connection settings,
1. Goto “Control Panel” >> “Network connections”
2. Right-click on your LAN connection and click “Properties”. In the “General” tab, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”. Click the “Properties” button.
3. Set the Values
IP Address - 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway - 192.168.0.2
4. Click OK and you are done for PC1.

PC2:
1. Just right-click “My Computer” and click Properties.
2. Select the “Computer Name” tab and click the “Change” button.
3. Change the computer name to PC2. Change the workgroup to WG. (The workgroup name should be the same in both computers)
4. Click OK.

Now, to configure the TCP/IP connection settings,
1. Goto “Control Panel” >> “Network connections”
2. Right-click on your LAN connection and click “Properties”. In the “General” tab, select “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”. Click the “Properties” button.
3. Set the Values
IP Address - 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway - 192.168.0.1

4. Click OK and you are done for PC2 as well


If you have done the above part correctly, the computers will have detected each other. If they don’t, just restart both the computers.

You can access the other computer in “My network Places”. You can also play multi-player games using this connection. For easier access you can map a drive on the network to a local drive by “Tools” >> “Map network drive”.

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ajayritik said:

I need to connect my laptop to PC using a router so that I can transfer files from one to the other. Can someone please help me guide how do I do this.

Router:Netgear WGR614 Wireless-N 150
Desktop PC Operating System: Windows XP & Vista
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1510 with Windows Vista preinstalled

I know that I need to connect both laptop and the PC to the ethernet ports at the back of the router using and RJ 45 cable and also that I need to set up the ip addresses.

Can someone please help me on this?

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ajayritik said:

@ thanks d6bmg.
How do I identify a cross crimped ethernet cable?
I think it's some color coding?

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ramakanta said:

crossover cable Connection

RJ 45 No1 PIN RJ 45 No2 PIN
1-----------------------3
2-----------------------6
3-----------------------1
4---------------------- 4
5-----------------------5
6-----------------------2
7-----------------------7
8-----------------------8



1- White green
2- Green
3- White orange
4- Blue
5- white Blue
6 -orange
7 - white brown
8- brown

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