Connecting 2 PCs by USB

Somebody already asked a question "by serial cable" ...

Mine (maybe a simple one) is, that I need to use my friends laptop DVD drive
to copy DVDs onto my computer. We both have Windows XP and USB. Is the
transfer so easy that I just buy a USB cable and they are automatically
connected (I would quess so), or do I need some kind of software as well?

Thanks

Juha

Juha Kettunen

"Juha Kettunen" <> wrote in message
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> Somebody already asked a question "by serial cable" ...
>
> Mine (maybe a simple one) is, that I need to use my friends laptop DVD
drive
> to copy DVDs onto my computer. We both have Windows XP and USB. Is the
> transfer so easy that I just buy a USB cable and they are automatically
> connected (I would quess so), or do I need some kind of software as well?

You need a special USB file transfer cable, and it usually comes with
software, although I'm not sure if XP requires it. Alternatively, you can
achieve something similar if you buy two USB ethernet adapters, and then
connect them with a crossover ethernet cable. Then you would have the two
machines networked, and can share files that way, but I think the plain file
transfer cable would be less expensive overall.