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Jul 27, 2002, 7:58am

Not related to AW, But I am asking here as a last resort before going out
and buying two NIC's and a cross-over network cable, I am obviously at my
wits ends on this :o(. I've search the web and usenet high and low to try
and find out how to do this to no avail.
I'm trying to set up a direct connection between windows 2000 and 98 using a
parellel "data transfer" cable, I HAVE been able to do this between two
computers both running 98 in the past without problems but NEVER been able
to get it working between a win98 and win2000 system.

I've followed the instructions
http://www.lpt.com/Support/DCC-setUp/dcc-setup.htm. tried to do this several
times over. I've even made sure the cable I was using *is* a cross over
cable.

So where else could I be going wrong?

Jul 27, 2002, 12:16pm

I was able to do it once, but I had similar problems trying to get it to
work. I set up my Win98 machine as the guest, and created an account on
my Win2000 machine for my Win98 computer. The sticking point was that
the account name had to be *exactly* the same as the log-in name I used
for Win98. Did you try that approach already?

Wish I could be more clear, but I've since had to reinstall my Win2000
and lost all my connection settings... :(

[View Quote] > Not related to AW, But I am asking here as a last resort before going out
> and buying two NIC's and a cross-over network cable, I am obviously at my
> wits ends on this :o(. I've search the web and usenet high and low to try
> and find out how to do this to no avail.
> I'm trying to set up a direct connection between windows 2000 and 98 using a
> parellel "data transfer" cable, I HAVE been able to do this between two
> computers both running 98 in the past without problems but NEVER been able
> to get it working between a win98 and win2000 system.
>
> I've followed the instructions
> http://www.lpt.com/Support/DCC-setUp/dcc-setup.htm. tried to do this several
> times over. I've even made sure the cable I was using *is* a cross over
> cable.
>
> So where else could I be going wrong?
>
>
>


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Jul 29, 2002, 1:51pm

Whenever doing this sort of thing, both computers should use the same
operating system. In my house, we always keep all computers at the same
operating system to prevent networking problems. :-)

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Jul 29, 2002, 2:19pm

What you need is a DOS level version of LapLink3. If you boot into DOS off
of floppy, the installed OS is a moot point. And the versions of Laplink
I've seen are reasonably decent to set up -

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Jul 29, 2002, 4:13pm

Ever heard about servers and clients?

Of course you haven't been serious with this - I hope *g


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Jul 29, 2002, 4:26pm

Is the bios set to bidirectional mode, ecp + epp ?

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Aug 1, 2002, 9:24pm

Many Thanks for all your replies. I really appreciate it.

I've tried again this morning but it still won't go, I've even changed
parallel port setting in the BIOS from spp to ecp + epp. This really
boggles me as all I had to do with the win98 systems was setup direct
Connect and add the neccessary protocol and go! that was simple, but trying
to do it between win2000(guest) and win98(host), so far has probably been my
biggest ordeal with computers yet.

I'm not going to bother wasting anymore time trying it in windows anylonger
and instead go with mongo's idea and obtain a dos version of laplink or a
similar program. Failing that, it's time for the trip out the the local
electronic's store to get two NIC's and a crossover cable.

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