Remote Desktop Connection with single Ethernet cable

Hi,
I'd like to be able to use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection app to connect to one of my XP machines with my PowerBook. I can do this when everything is running on my home LAN, but I'd like to be able to connect with just a single Ethernet cable connected from my PowerBook's network port to the network card of the XP machine. This would allow me to use the PowerBook as a monitor when I bring the XP machine offsite to run tests (I'm a computer technician). I've played with the Network settings in the System Preferences, but things that would seem to me to work don't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken

When you're on the road, and these are the only machines connected to each other, you will either need to configure them to have static IP's in the same subnet
192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3
255.255.255.0
no gateway/router IP required.
THey'll need to be in the same workgroup (but you probably have that already)
...or...
Configure the XP machine to be the DHCP server, and the mac to get IP from XP.
(first option is probably better.)
Might need a crossover cable. Might not.

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