Sharing with crossover ethernet cable? Or other hard connection?

[baccarat]

What is the best way to share a pooled drive with another machine using a cable connection? Both are Win 7. I was thinking USB 3.0 transfer cable but there only seem to be 2.0 ones and apparently not very good. Anybody sharing with a crossover ethernet cable directly between 2 PCs without going through some network or hub?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

For the computers, any eithernet cable should work, I believe. They should autodetect.  However, if you do that, you'll have to make sure that you're manually setting the IP addresses for both machines (or you grab the "auto-assigned" one).

 

 

Though, you could connect both to a router (even if it's not plugged into a cable modem, as that would simplify everything.

[p3x-749]

+1

..and if your router is not GBit, get a GBit switch, not a hub....these start cheap and will not introduce any noticable lag: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100010066%20600015752

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Or if you have a spare gigabit router, you can connect both to it, and it should be seamless (except for no internet). 

[baccarat]

I connected the machines directly, mobos are Gbit. Easier than playing around with my router's firewall.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I connected the machines directly, mobos are Gbit. Easier than playing around with my router's firewall.

Well, if both were "LAN side", then the firewall shouldn't affect them.

 

But yeah, directly connecting them is the easiest simplest method.