twisted Pair

[Matt Price]

it all depends on what you want to do.  If you just want them to be able
to e.g. see each other's webservers, then you need to set IP addresses
on the two machines.  If you want to share an internet connection, you
need a more complex setup on the computer w/ 2 ethernet cards.  If you
want to share files, then you most likely do need Samba or some such
protocol.

g'luck,
matt


On Tue, 2006-17-10 at 13:51 -0400, Patrick Newberry wrote:
> I want to connect two computers together (one a newer windows machine
> and one a somewhat new machine with Ubunutu).
>  
> I have a twisted pair connector made for me a long time ago and both
> machines have ethernet cards. 
>  
> Is there any info on what I have to do next to connect the two (after
> plugging in the cables and turning the machines on :-)
>  
> I'm guessing on the windows machine I'd got to network neighbor hood
> or something, 
>  
> Also net working on the ubuntu machine, but I am assuming I would not
> need samba would I?
>  
>  
> I did google search first but found mostly info on how to build the
> twisted pair.
>  
> (example: http://www.mreriksson.net/miscdocs/tpcable/)
>  
> I'd have to set some sort of IP address?
>  
> Pat.
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