What is the easiest way to transfer files from a PC to laptop??

That my dear is a very loaded question :)

What type of file, how big, how many? What type of network topology do you have? I assume these are both winders machines your talkin bout.

Large files, er multipule files, windows SUCKS at tryin to transfer them, you've either gotta do em one at a time, an if they are to big you'll have trouble wit em anyways cause of the way windows swaps files.

If you have a network of any sort an can connect both pc's to the network, the fastest er easiest (per-se) would jes to share the drives/folders an swap what files you want. There is always of course CD's er floppy disc's that type of media, er direct cable connection which can be very buggy an you need a cable for etc. Could you be a bit more specific?

I actually use an FTP server for most of my files, FTP is a File Transfer Protocal. It's an external program, er in other words one you don't have hehe, involves at least one server an one ftp client program, you can download shareware versions but they are crap, I have one I could loan you.... uh... maybe not, I bet I don't have a copy wit me in the truck, though I could git one fairly easily an send you, but you'd havta shut it down completely after you've used it, plus it can be a lil complicated if you don't understand network topology much, but I could walk ya'll through that as well for quick use. This must however be on an internal network, you cain't git the program I could loan you to work externally, I don't have a lic. that would allow that use.

EASIEST way...

Buy an external HD enclosure.
Take HD from PC put in enclousre. Hook up to laptop Done.....


Other than that... Are we talking on a home network? Share a drive and copy it to the drive.

Two totally unconnected machines? $20 ish can get you a 1GB flash drive, you can drag and drop files up to a gig onthe drive and move it wherever you want... (there are larger sizes out there but that invilves mroe $) or if you have a CD or DVD burner you can always burnt he data to a disc and then it goes wherever you want it to.....

Om!

How do I share files? I guess I am having trouble figuring out how to etwork them together. There won't be much need to share any files after I get these transferred, so I really only need to do this once....I think..

I have a wireless router adn I am hoping to be able to do this wirelessly..

ya easy as pie, if both pc's are on your netwrok via the wireless router, if they are both on that router it's a simple deal to do.

On new OS's, simply open my computer, right click on the drive er folder etc that you want to share an click, turn on file sharin, actually I think it's called sumthin like sharin an security but don't quote me on that, you'll havta answer some questions, like are you sure you want to share your files, security risk etc, jes tell it you understand an you want to share them anyways., do this on the puter you want to git the files from.

Then right click my network, er network neighborhood an click 'map network drive' Now it can be a lil probmatic wit some machines for this. But it's far easier if you know the CURRENT IP address of the machine you wish to git the files from. The syntax is \\ENTER IP ADDRESS\SHARED DIRECTORY. It's easier if you jes enter \\IP address then click browse til you find the directory you wish to access, so FOR EXAMPLE

\\192.168.1.100\C:

That would map the drive to the address endin in 100 an it's entire C: partition.

So to be clear, if you want files off of the lap top an want them on your computer, on the lap top, enable file sharin, then on your computer map the network drive an then you jes access it via my coupmter like a local hard drive. Do the reverse of all of this to disable them later.

If you need help findin out your ip addresses of the machines an firewall settins jes let us know. btw, who is the router made by?

Also... another perhaps even easier faster way of doin this, if both the machines are on your network, you can use sumthin like ICQ to transfer whatever files you want rather quickly an it negats the need to map drives er share files etc.

I'l try that later, when Cliff gets home and the kids are not all under my watch...

how do I find the IP addresses?

A simple way is to go to Start>Run>Type cmd>Enter>Type ipconfig>Enter. Cos you're on a router your IP address should start with a 192.168 (but you don't want the gateway). You need to do this on each computer you want an address for.

Thanks!

Where did you learn all this?

Louis told me. He's not just a hot ass you know :D

Where did he learn all this stuff???

Please keep his hot ass to yourself...and to those bags!

Well ya see, when I was a wee lad, not much more then a gleen in my daddy's eye..... well... a bit more then that I spose.... anyways, I've always played wit puters, had a radio shack Tandy years back, state of the art stuff ya know, then a commodore 64 an man was I flyin wit that thin, Then an Apple an crap! The day I got ahold of an Apple 2 wit TWO 5.25 floppy drives!!! Oh I bout creamed my jeans! I programmed in BASIC on those machines for years but then IBM an windows started gittin togeather an came out wit these operatin systems that were coded completely different an I've been playin catch up ever since, I've only been studyin C/C++ for.... oh I donno 10 years er sumthin... still hadn't hardly scratched the surface of it. But I'm a mechanic, so I fix thins, I take em apart an put em back togeather an hopefully they work better... er at least as well as they did before I took em apart hehe.

PC's like engine oil pressure, blood pressure, electricity, plumbin.. they all have a path to follow, a start an a stop, doesn't matter how many times any of it makes a loop, so long as you know where a start er end is you can generally fix jes bout anythin. I've learned by doin, theres plenty I don't know an I'm so frickin far out of the market anymore.. I jes donno a hill of beans... not wit pci-e at 64mhz an funky system boards an way out there chip sets, I jes hadn't got a clue anymore, I'm to old I spose.

At any rate, I was able to read your question the other day but due to road conditions couldn't respond, so I told Sarah the easiest way to git the information you wanted that I could explain to Sarah, there are plenty of easier ways to git the info you wanted through a GUI but I couldn't member the specific names of everthin, like win9x calls it network neighbourhood er some such an xp calls it network places, then you gotta find a tab er button for device listins, an that depends on how they thin is set up for at the

Don't mind if I do :eyebrows:

You lost me.. :blink:

I would love to know all kinds of stuff like that....when you guy get to talkin compruter lingo I am just baffled..

I can find my way around the computer, I just don't often know how to find the not so obvious things...Or what I am supposed to do with them


Ohj I forgpt to tell you my router is a Linksys...

Google, and Ask.com are great places to start learning.....

There are a lot of sites out there that fisher price things for those of us not born with electrons in our blood....
Or just ask us and We'll be glad to bask in our geekdom...

I learned all this stuff because I was a tad awkward around people..... Computers made more sense than people did...

ROFLOL geekdom... we'll baffle you wit BS er break out the geekdom! your choice LOL

I didn't git to finish my post earlier sorry bout that but Strings ..... uh..... state.. which is losin favor wit me quickly reached up from it's crappy ground an grabbed my clutch sef adjuster an broke the frickin thin right out of there.. so now along wit the 125 bucks I had to shell out an the fact they've got me logged there to.. I gotta baby this thin in an spend 1200 to replace the clutch an the rest of the crap.... trust me String I'm really in the mood to kick in a door! LOL

Anyways, did you git your files transfered? That's where I was goin earlier before Oklahoma happened.....

We'll try it this weekend. weekdays are too rushed..

Where are you in Oklahoma?

Well.. I'm not in OK no more hehe, I'm in TN now, goin to take a nap an go to VA tomarra, but I was runnin cross 40, scales caught me at the 129 mm an the road took out my auto-clutch adjuster at the 196. Kat puked from the 128 in TX to the 230 in OK but she seems better now, an Sarah broke my blower switch in the bunk somewheres round bout the Petro in OKC. Had jes a real lovely day.... although an Sarah is right... it could have always been worse.

Infact, if it weren't for er bein here I'd likely be in prison for the VOLENTARY manslughter of two occupents at the 280 mm in AR :D

What? Are you gonna make her take over now? :eyebrows:

A2J - your history suonds a lot like mine. Got a TRS-80 in 1979 with only a cassette deck for storing files. 3 minutes to load a 3K file (that's roughly 3,000 characters). No hard disk, no floppy disk. 4 Kilobytes of memory and about 500 of that was dedicated.

Now, I'm running Linux on a 2.2GHz with 512M and a 60GB HDD. And I still don't have enough power!

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Can't believe these so-called GEEKS didn't suggested a NIC to NIC crossover cable....


Sheesh....

you want to explain to her how to make a crossover cable?

With their recent exploits they might be a little on the lean side to actually pick on up, especailly since their luck with there car seems to be mixed recently.... the going to pick one up might be more expensive then cable itself....

Which reminds me I really need to learn how to make cables myself... what did I do with that PDF.....

Wow!! You guys can make cables?!?! :bow:

The dealer that we took the car to has given us a loaner. Firt time we drove around a 2007 Toyota Sequoia, now we're cramming into a Camry..at no charge!! That is the best thing--the free rental on loan..

um - yeah - what's so hard about that? Once I learned how to use a crimper, I got really good at it. One day I forgot my crimper and used the pliers and screwdriver on my Leatherman to make a good, working cable.

Now, typically, a CAT-5 cable will be:

• white-orange
• orange
• white-green
• green...

What? Larry's only joking? OK...

I have used a crimper, too.
I still have my crimper from 20 years ago!

I wouldn't have even tried to explain makin a cable... buuuuuuutttt... now that I think of it.. knockin on VA's door go figure, I have enuff stuff in the truck wit me to have made bout a ten foot croos cable (I was testin it for my bunk pc's sound)

But, I'm not sure String would be interested in tryin to take er network apart in the first place.. AND mister squat, in case you missed it, she said she's on a wireless network, so the likely hood she has cabled ports are slim at best, espically if it came bundled er the like, not many wireless nic cards runnin round wit cabled ports any more :(

****GEEK SLAPPED****

:D

Besides, I haven't personnally tried a nic to nic on an nt platform, but all the 9x boxes were insanely buggy, has anyone tried nic to nic on nt? Is it as buggy as 98 was?

An uh String LOL naughty!! hehe

:rollseyes:

Try using this on your hair!

:cowboy:

My roomie and I built a network between NT3.51 and WfW 3.11 back in '94. 'Cept for the hole in the wall, it was a beautiful arrangement! Landlord had some issues with the huge hole in the wall between his room and mine... :dunno:

WOW Louis went there...... More embarrasing than a pipm or bitch slap it's the GEEK Slap....

rolf :rolf: