Networking is the area of computers I know the least about so sorry if this is a dumb question. I have two computers, a desktop running Win 2000 and a laptop running Win XP. I want to connect them together so that I can transfer files between them. According to the stickies I read here, I need a network card in each computer. But I was wondering if there is a way to do this through USB. I bought a USB-to-USB cable and connected one end to the laptop's usb port and the other end to the desktop's usb port, and I expected to see the laptop's hard drive show up in the desktop's file manager (or vice versa), but it didn't (I tried rebooting, but nothing). What do I need to do in order to transfer files between these computers across the usb cable?