How do I connect two computers with a LAN cable?
I have two machines - Windows XP and a laptop using Windows 7. I connected them with a WLAN cable.
On the Windows XP machine, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.10.
On the Windows 7 laptop, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.20.
The laptop can see the Windows XP machine, but Windows XP machine cannot see the Windows 7 machine. But this does NOT concern me. I want to move the files from my desktop (Windows XP) to Windows 7 (laptop). That's why I'm going through all this.
The problem is that when I try to connect from Windows 7 to Windows XP machine, I get this window:
I don't understand what username/password is needed. I use none on the Windows XP machine. I tried all usernames - no success.
Please explain in deep details how to solve my problem so I can connect to my Windows XP machine.
EDIT: Maybe this can help: the Windows XP machine is named 'I' and 'Проданов III' is the name of the laptop. Both computers share one workgroup - WORKGROUP.
- Find your username for I
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete, it may show you the username as "you are logged in as I\USERNAME", or it will bring up the Task Manager.
- If you see task manager, click on Users tab, that will give you the name that's logged in.
- Set a password
- Your account on I must have a password.
- Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts, then select your account and set a password.
- While you're there, make sure this user is an administrator - it remove a lot of permission problems
- After setting the password, reboot. Always reboot when in doubt.
- Try connecting again from laptop
- Username is I\USERNAME, whatever you found in step 1
- Password is the password you just set