Windows 2000/NT forum: Setting up networking

I would not have thought that Win 2k networking would be hard to set up. I've ordered the cable and I'll give it a try.

Thanks.

I was able to get Win7, Win2K and XP networked and running happily though I recently tore my Win2k system down. Win2k doesn't use XPs default "simple file sharing" so it's just as if you've unchecked that box. I have found more success using "the" administrator rather than "an" administrator account, however. I don't see why you cannot set up a folder in the 2K box, share it and move any and all desired files and folders there. As long as your Win7 box has the same username/password account, it should work. There's one small glitch I ran into along the way having to do with Windows SMB that needed a policy tweak but I've forgotten exactly why it was needed. Anyway, all worked fine for me. Link below. Good luck.

http://www.tannerwilliamson.com/2009/09/windows-7-seven-network-file-sharing-fix-samba-smb/

that can't be undone once the task is complete. It's just to transfer files from one PC to another in someone's home. I can't see what's so bad about that.

Look at the tax code. People need to be their own lawyers and CPAs too, I guess.

The cable for the drive works OK, but I wasn't able to transfer the data that way. For some reason the new PC kept trying to interpret the Old drive (attached via USB) as a recovery partition. I was tired and I didn't understand what was happening so I went to plan B. The old hard drive only had about 7 GB of data so I whipped out my 8 GB USB flash drive and copied the most important stuff to it, then used the flash drive to load the stuff onto the new PC. It worked, but I forgot about a major problem. 1998 vintage PCs had USB 1. Moving 'just' a few GB at USB 1 transfer rates is SLOW. We went and had dinner. It took about 2 hours to copy from the old PC to the new, and about 10 minutes to upload onto the new PC. There were a couple of delays when the old PC's AV decided that some of the document files might be infected but things generally went smoothly.

I had hoped to save the entire hard drive on my WHS PC back at home, but it turns out WHS doesn't support Win 2k. I'm currently using the HD to USB cable you recommended to load all the files onto a WHS share instead of creating a backup. I don't know how to do it directly via RDP without messing up the WHS file system so it's having to go over the network. Another SLOW process. At least this time I can go to sleep while it runs. I've got a wireless connection so copying several GB will take a while.

It's funny how things that should be easy (eg: copying a file via a USB drive) can turn out to be an adventure.

I've read about programs that can create a mountable image of a disk so the programs can be run as a virtual PC but I don't know anything about it so I don't know how easy/hard it is or whether it's likely to be worthwhile.

There's a software programme called transwiz to transferr files from 2000 to any other system xp win 7.You can get it from Forensit .com.I may try this myself.