on another note.. and to add to that ipx spx suggestion (which was quite good), net beui is also a simple fast useless (outside of windows world) protocol that won't require any configuration outside a unique netbios name for both machines. why torment yourself with tcpip if you are not going on the internet? Not sure if netbeui still ships with XP or any MS product but it was their flagship networking protocol, when time was...
