re: This is not working neither between one desktop and one laptop running both XP professional!!!
Friday, February 7, 2003 at 9:44 am
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Posted by Sarah Coast
(25 messages posted)
sorry not to replying anymore to this
i finally managed to solve my problem the hard way (and the only way that would work).
I connected via network. I had to buy a new cable for it, since i didn't know there
were two types of cables. But that way is sure to work, just set your tcp/ip protocol
to 192.168.0.1 on one computer and 192.168.0.2. i'm not sure about it, but perhaps
you need also to set an user account on each computer for a computer to access the
other. (running winxp and win98 i did not need it). but probably not, you just have
more likely do define your shares. i didn't have any luck with the parallel cable.
On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 11:48 am, sylvio wrote:
>Since yesterday I am tired of trying it out to get them working. I thought that
the
>cable was out of order even though I bought it yesterday!
>The lapton is a hp omnibook PII runnning windows xp while the desktop is a "nobody"
>PIII.
>As a matter of fact, when I restarted after plugging the cable in, the desktop installed
>automatically a "modem" called direct cable between two computers configured to
work
>on port COM1. I could not change this to work on LPT1. However, I tried it on COM1
>even if it is stupid, it did not work. After that, I tried installing a Direct Parallel
>cable since it was an option in the standard modem installation alternatives. Problem
>is there is no port to install it on!!! More, I let the cable installed on COMI
and
>I set as parameters that the connection use either COM1 or LPT1. It did not work
>either. I am quite desperate!!!
>
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