How can I set up a file share bt windows and linux without and internet access?

[MacTown06]

What I want to do is something I expect to be very simple. I have a desktop computer running debian linux and a lap top running windows vista. On both I have ethernet plugins and neither one has internet access.

I have a lan cable and I simply want plug my windows machine directly into my linux box and be able to share files between them. How should I go about doing this?

[folkert]

A few short tips pop in my mind:
your lan cable must be a cross-link.
Your ip-adress will best be in the same subnet
Use ping to see if you can ping the other pc
to share files on de linux pc you must run smbd (and edit the configuration file)
to acces shared files on vista (I have no experience with vista) you must mount the shares using mount with smbfs