[Michael Poff]

[walter biscardi] “You can tie computers together with an ethernet hub, but not Firewire.”

Just so everyone is clear. If you take two computers, and connect a firewire cable between the two, in Windows XP, Both computers will automatically connect to each other. I do it all the time to quickly transfer from my laptop to my desktop. Windows will even create a “network notification” in the system tray just like a typical network connection.

just type \\computername to get your share drives up.