[silver10]

I just bought a 12" PB and want to move all my iTunes music across to my PB. I have an ethernet cable and thats about it. I do have iDisk as well.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Running Panther and XP Pro
Cable internet

[ghporter]

You should be able to share both the drive in the old machine and the new machine, connect 'em together with your ethernet cable, and then move the music files manually (select them, move them). I think that's the simplest way to go, if not the most elegant.

[poisonmonkey]

Actually in that set up you need a cross over cable...
a regular ethernet cable wont' do it.

[ghporter]

Poisonmonkey, that used to be true, but the new laptops come with autosensing network cards, so a standard cable will work in this situation. Good thing, too, since I've seen many situations where an accidental use of a crossover cable flushed an entire day down the tubes. Very frustrating! Here, Apple has stuck to their tradition of making things ever easier for the user.

[Casper Crane]

In what situation would accidentally using a crossover cable cause data loss?

Forgive me, I just cannot imagine.

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Casper Crane:
In what situation would accidentally using a crossover cable cause data loss?

Forgive me, I just cannot imagine.

No data loss, just a lot of wasted time messing with equipment that did not autosense. And I've seen this with more than one small network set up.

Fortunately, it wasn't me that did the connecting; I "came to the rescue" of the person that did the wiring.

The bad part is that there's no standard way to indicate that a cable is a crossover cable, and unless it's marked you have to use some sort of test equipment to see if it's just a bad cable or a crossover.

The best crossover product I ever saw was a little box with two ethernet ports on it and a big "CROSSOVER" label-you plug normal cables into the box and the overall result is a crossover cable.