Connect PC directly to my Mac with Ethernet?

This may be the wrong place to post this, but can I network a PC to my Mac directly with a single Ethernet cable?
Currently they're networked via a hardwired router, but I want to set up my Mac desktop for a wireless connection to an airport base station, but I still need my PC to talk to my Mac. I would actually prefer not to have my PC connected to the internet at all (so I don't want to set the PC up for wireless access), just to my Mac...

Hi Nolan!
You have a G4 dual and if I recall correctly it is gigabit capable. That means it can also use either a cross-over or a standard straight-through Ethernet cable to connect directly to your Windows computer. Otherwise you'd have to use a cross-over cable.
Connect the two with a cable and make sure file sharing is enabled on both. Each will assign itself an IP address in the range of 169.254.xxx.xxx and therefore be able to communicate with the other machine.
To make things a little easier, put them both in the same WORKGROUP. On Windows, right-click "My Computer" and select Properties. You can set a WORKGROUP name under the computer name tab. On Mac OS X, open the Directory Access application found in /Applications/Utilities. Configure SMB and put the same WORKGROUP name in there as well.
When you browse the network from either machine, you should be able to see the other.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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