Bruce Beardall wrote: > Hi All > > A friend and myself at work are looking to exchange files between our > two laptops wirelessly. Security concerns at work mean we can't > necessarily use the network and it would be a bit laborious to use > burn discs and pass them back and forth constantly. He's using Vista > and I'm running Hardy. Wireless on both laptops works fine but it's > not something I've done before. > > Any suggestions on how I should go about it? If I understand correctly you probably want to set up an ad-hoc network, information on doing this can be found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Adhoc I tried to do this at home once, it didn't work and I never worked out why. Apparently only some wifi cards support creating ad-hoc networks. Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/