To: alt.windows98,microsoft.p
You said that it's special ...
Does this thinkpad have a PCMCIA slot ?
If so lots of options
If not ... what makes it "special" ?



"enquiring minds" wrote in message
...
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`

I have lots of cross over cables but where does the ethernet card hook
to on an old laptop? What are the connection options that will work?

Also what do you have to do to get a file tranfered from one computer
to
the other using this method?

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