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"Solve My Problem - Networking ??"

Please !!

Right, at the moment I'm taking screen captures from various consoles by plugging the yellow composite av cable into a capture card on an old PC. This old PC has a NI card in it.

The new PC has an NI built in.

Would I be right in thinking that I can connect the two PC's by the NI with some sort of cable, then transfer the image files from the old PC to the new PC ?

The old PC only has a floppy drive in, and at one screenshot per floppy it's going to get tedious !

Any suggestions/help appreciated.

Twas a battle, but I've done it !

*is proud of self even if Jive did 80% of it*

My first network :)

Bell, no problems, glad to help and I'm glad it all worked in the end.

I work with setting up computers on a WAN/LAN all day so I really should know what I'm talking about.

:D

ICS....now that's another question as I've never used or set it up, it's been covered here to DEATH before so a little bit of searching back should give you all the answers you need.

Now to see if I can get ICS to work :P

Hurrah ! Thanks Jive, I can now access the My Documents folder on hte old PC from this New PC and transfer stuff.

Really appreciate this, will savea lot of hassle !

Thanks again Jive, whatever job it is you do you sure know your stuff !

Both of them will ping each other now.

Bell, yes and no to your last question.

But for the moment, stick with what you've got and just remember that you will need to add file and print sharing on the 98 machine for XP to be able to see it across the network you've just created.

Oh and Bell, your subnet mask needs to be 255.255.255.0 on both computers, no need for WINs or a Default Gateway.

Once they've been input you'll need to reboot the 98 computer and the settings should take effect.

The XP machine wont need a restart.

When you do the XP machine and the numbers in there [do this first] goto Start > Run and type ping 192.168.50.20 -t [the t has to be lowercase] and this'll run a continuous ping to the 98 computer.

You should see the pings saying request timed out and then you should start to see a reply when the 98 comp starts it's reboot process.

Thanks, I'll try that and see how far I get, BTW, I'd be right in thinking that this would be easier if both computers had Windows XP on right ?

God knows why, I do this for a living.

:)

Mark, I'm impressed, your so knowledgeable