Connecting office computer and laptop

[Learner_Pravin]

My office desktop is connected to LAN, to which I want to connect my laptop to exchange files and use mouse without borders n stuff like that. I used a LAN cable splitter which dint work. Pls help me resolve this issue. Thank you all

 

[jsmithepa]

Somewhere in every LAN, there is a SWITCH, all clients who wish to participate in LAN activity simply plug into this SWITCH, which can be 4 RJ45 ports in the back of a router, or a stand-along box with 8 ports or more, and if you don't have one, BUY one, is not expensive at all. This is the proper way to do things.

 

[Learner_Pravin]

But is there any way I can find out if my office IT dept allows multiple IP address? So if they dont, should i get a router?Coz the connection at my desk is a wall socket

 

[jsmithepa]

This is in an office! OK.

Unless you are in one wacko office, everybody sane uses DHCP, meaning as you plug in a new device into this switch, a new IP will be assigned to the new device.

Wall ---> SWITCH ---> PCs. That's it dude, is not complicated at all.


In the unlikely event that your IT department, for some strange reason assigned you a single static IP and that's all you can have, and maybe for a reason, I am not gonna help you circumvent your IT department.

 

[Learner_Pravin]

Oh man ! U r genius thank you. You really made it look easy and I think it is. Great