Urgent Networking Question

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Paladin2000: AFAIK, PC to PC connection via COM port or Printer port only works for Windows 98 and below.

Just simply not true.

[Lavindathar]

I've got a laplink cable, but what is hyperterm?

How do I run it just through windows?

[Paladin2000]

Originally posted by Night Stalker: quote: Originally posted by Paladin2000: AFAIK, PC to PC connection via COM port or Printer port only works for Windows 98 and below.

Just simply not true. [/QUOTE]COM to COM over Hyperterminal? IMO, a bit messy to setup and not very use friendly. Plus COM port speed are awfully slow.

LPT1 to LPT1 over Hyperterminal? I am not sure but I was told that Hyperterminal would not work on LPT ports... but I could be wrong.

[edited]
Of course an updated copy laplink program should do the trick, but it is back to the old issue of money again.

In any case, I think the most effective way is either through USB connections or the old UTP connetions via crossover cables.

[ 11-15-2003, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]

[andrewas]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: I've got a laplink cable, but what is hyperterm? How do I run it just through windows?

Start->programs->accessories->communications. You might have to install it, but winXP should have it by default.

[Lavindathar]

In the end I took the hard drive out of the PC and connected it to the laptop as a local disk.

Got the job done still [img]smile.gif[/img]