Linux-to-Windoze USB networking?

[David Mandala]

Hmmm, why not have the Linux box provide dhcp when the Windoze box is
connected to it? Trivial and much faster and easier then USB to USB.
Then you don't need to change anything on the Windoze box.

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 08:36, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> A friend of mine has two notebooks, one Linux and one XP.  He'd like to 
> transfer files between them in a convenient fashion.  They both have ethernet 
> interfaces, but the Windoze machine is already set up in DHCP for his 
> internet connection.  It would be possible to change this to a static IP 
> every time he connected the two together, but that sounds like a pain.  I 
> thought that maybe the USB ports would offer a more convenient solution.  
> I've already found some detailed Linux-to-Linux instructions at 
> www.handhelds.org, but I was wondering if anyone had seen any "howto" 
> documents or products that address this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
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