desktop pc to laptop via direct parallel

[Vin_10]

How to share files and internet using direct parallel connection. Desktop pc win95 to laptop winXp Home Edition.

[Ernest Ford]

Go Start/help and search for direct cable connection - there are step by step instructions there.

[Vin_10]

I got error: 721 the remote computer did not respond

[Ernest Ford]

Where did you get the cable from - are you certain that it's the correct cable? I'm assuming that you have configured both PC's correctly - I vaguely remember that one has to be a host and the other a client - I haven't used a direct cable connection since the mid '90's - ethernet is so much faster.

[Vin_10]

i want to connect my laptop to my old desktop without any network card. i got an error message "make sure you have run direct cable connection on the host computer and you have connected your cable to both computers".

[Ernest Ford]

Vin,

We don't seem to be on the same page. Let me try again.

You can use direct cable connection to connect your laptop to your desktop without a network card. For it to work you must have a special cable connecting either the parallel ports or the serial ports on the two computers to one another, AND you must configure the utility correctly.

Just to make it clear - the cable EITHER goes from the laptop parallel port to the desktop parallel port OR from the laptop serial port to the desktop serial port - you cannot connect from the serial port on one computer to the parallel port of the other.

1) Do you have the special cable?
2) Where did you get the cable from?
3) Are you configuring one computer to be the host and the other the client?