USB networking

[flyby2001]

If i was to get a usb cable (please pardon my tech knowledge it an't great) with both big ends i think this is A/A can i connect my pc to my laptop and move stuff from one to the other???

if so what software can i use/or is the best?

i am currently running 98second ed on my pc and win me on the laptop can i do this cross platform??

i have used direct connect using a serial cabel but found this really slow. so i'm now looking at any other options. I would like to use ports and stuff i already have on both pc's which is why i was looking into USB.



Cheers

Flyby2001 out........

 

[LTR12101B]

All USB-interconnects I have seen, use an ACTIVE cable - there is a lump in the middle, that's not just a filter!

If you have parallel ports on both, a parellel (laplink?) cable could be used, and instructions can be found for making those.


If you want to use USB to USB, there are a few options:
1. Link cable, with software
2. Link cable (maybe different) operating as a "collapsed ethernet".
3. USB to ethernet adapters and crossover cable
(cheaper to use a card in the main PC - possibly a PCMCIA in the laptop)

If you need to network them, the easy way is to use XP to create the setup floppy for the second machine - yes it CAN be used on a 9x machine!
I'd rather do it differently, but any other way means fighting XP's Wizards.