To: alt.windows98,microsoft.p
This is NOT a "regular parallel printer cable" you might have hanging
around - see:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
(yeah it's on the xp page but 98 or xp = same thing):

"To contact Parallel Technologies to order Direct Cable Connection
cables"
Within the United States and Canada: (800) 789-4784
Outside the United States and Canada: (425) 869-1119
etc

so if you're trying to avoid spending $$ - that's not an option.

How big are the files - how about restore them to floppy on laptop?

Bobb


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Pop` wrote:
wrote:
I need to network my laptop to my desktop so the laptop sees a
virtual
drive letter that's actually a directory on the desktop. The laptop
is
an older PIII with Serial, parallel, USB 1.1 - no ethernet. Windows
has "direct cable connection" for serial/parallel, but Mircrosoft
says
"Before you can transfer files from the host to the guest computer,
the files must be in a shared directory,..."
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/arc...mspx?mfr=true).

The desktop is a newer Athlon 1.0Ghz with XP Pro. The laptop is a
PIII
500mhz with 98SE. The laptops serial port is an EIA232-E, 16550
compatible, 9-pin D; the parallel port is IEEE P1284-A, EPP, and
ECP
compatible. Which connection would be faster (serial/parallel) - an
article on Wiipedia says asynchronous RS232 is actually faster than
parallel at higher CPU clock speeds due to "skew" caused by the
parallel cable. I'll probably just get a NULL serial cable, because
I
expect it to be cheaper, and I won't be needing it again - if this
will work.

The reason I need this is that files were accidently deleted from
the
laptop via DOS. The file recovery software can see them, and it
asks
for a drive/directory to save the restored files in - so I need a
virtual drive letter - the desktop computer. I don't want to save
the restored files locally first, because that could corrupt the
other
deleted files. (I don't want to buy a network card for the laptop,
because I don't want to install software for it...)

Any help appreciated.

You can do that; or, if hte machines each have an ethernet card, or
you want
to spend a couple bucks (they're cheap) to outfit them, all you need
is a
crossover cable between the two computers to network them without a
swtich
or router even. Easier and likely a lot faster way to get it going.
Then
there's no need to fiddle with drive associations either; the local
and
remote drives on each machine, all available.

Pop`

What?? I consider an ethernet card a network card.


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