pc to pc crossover

can someone teach me how to network 2 pcs using crossover cable? One pc is using win2k onboard ethernet (abit nf7-s) and another is dual boot win98/win2k with a linksys NIC.
I'm using this network to transfer files and for gaming.

I tried that but I still can't see the files in my harddisk

what he said - can each PC ping the other one?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

well unfortunately i'm not so savvy with networking terms. Its just my first time doing this. Anyway yeah I can see one pc from the other but just the name and the deepest I can go when I double click the name is "Scheduled task" and "Printers"

did you share anything?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

I think you are connecting, but you don't know it yet. When you see scheduled taks and printers, on the explorer "bar" you'll see something like this

\\yourcomputername

add to that \c$

so you'll end up with a line like this up at the bar
\\yourcomputername\c$

try that

cool. Also, if you had shared something (not just turning on file sharing, but actually shared a folder) you would have seen the share name in the network neighborhood. But the generic c$ method works also. The most generic of all is to use ipc$ which authenticates you on the machine allowing you to explicitly use any resource (through the net use command)

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

just make sure you have good password on both and you should be fine. By good, I mean numbers and letters mixed up, etc.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>