OK heres my situation :

I have 2 PC's in a room, bothing running Windows XP Professional.

I want to connect them so I can see both disks from eiher machine, and also to be able to play the odd network game if I'm honest !

They are about 7 metres apart, and cannot get moved any closer. Is this too long to connect with a USB cable ? Or would that not help anyway ?

Do I need a cross-over cable (read that somewhere), and if so, what is it ?

Any help much appreciated