Temporaily hooking two computers together how?

[Draco]

Thanks Harold..I'll check with our local 3Com rep when i return to work on Monday.

Mucho gracias Senor

Enjoy your Xmas /New Years....

DRACO.

 

[Weird Harold]

I'll check with our local 3Com rep when i return to work on Monday.

Ask him about the "3COM Connections" CD. That's the bundled software disk for 3COM/USR modems that contains Rapidcomm.

BTW, there are tw versions of Rapidcomm. Rapidcomm and Rapidcomm Voice for the modems with voice mail capability.

 

[Draco]

Excellent Harold..we stock 3Com Etrhernet and Modems
so we're bound to have one.....thanks so much
You're a gentleman and a scholar.

 

[Guest]

I used to use lap link to move files from computer to computer. Just find a program like it and just hook cable from each serial port and tag files you want to move. This is the easy way to do it. I think there is a program called pc anywhere that may do it too.

 

[Unclebill]

Laplink/Direct Cable Connection/DOS 6.22 Interlink/Interserver programmes are all too slow for modern file sharing.
They run at the speed of the COM port..which by default is 9600 bps

Windows Networking cannot be run on NetBeui alone...it has to have the TCP/IP or SPX/IPX protocol to do it.

I expalined it earlier for NOVICE users to get a handle on UncleBill not techy types like you and I...

It seemed the original question was for copying files across a connection between two computers at the same site, not for file sharing. I agree Laplink is NOT suited for file sharing.

I used Laplink (V4 I think under DOS 6.x) routinely at 115KB but that was several years ago. I never had the parallel port cable to use that feature. Supposedly, it was much faster. I'd be very surprised if it could not still be set up to run at 115KB over a null modem cable.

Are you certain about NetBEUI? When I first installed a network card, I did NOT install TCP/IP nor IPX/SPX but with NetBEUI and file/printer sharing installed and drives/directories assigned a share name, I could share files between the two machines.

TCP/IP was installed on one computer to handle the Internet connectivity but not on the other since it had no modem.

And the TCP/IP protocol was only bound to the dial-up device.

 

[u2slow13]

true gentlemen, but if you saw his other thread he's wanting to copy files from a friends pc across town...now what?

 

[u2slow13]

just a thought but if the remote pc has linux you could always dial in using hyper terminal and sx the files back to you...no network needed.

 

[Unclebill]

just a thought but if the remote pc has linux you could always dial in using hyper terminal and sx the files back to you...no network needed.

Or just do it the old-fashioned way. Dial up one computer from the other and the operators transfer the files using a common protocol (Kermit, X-Modem, Z-modem, etc.). If I remember from way back, there was a Y-Modem protocol that permitted batch transfers but I'm trying to remember so far back, it's getting a bit hazy.

Of course, if there is any significant volume of files, it might be faster to pack up one computer and move it temporarily to the other site and use one of the methods above.

For Draco: I did check a MCSE reference text since my last post; NetBEUI is satisfactory for a small LAN without a router since NetBEUI protocol is not routable. And in Todd's case, I think that is a non-problem.

 

[Weird Harold]

(Kermit, X-Modem, Z-modem, etc.). If I remember from way back, there was a Y-Modem protocol that permitted batch transfers but I'm trying to remember so far back, it's getting a bit hazy.

Y-modem was/is X-Modem with batch capability. Kermit does batch files too.

Zmodem has batch file capability as well, and is much faster than any of the others and with the "resume ransfer" feature it's miles above any other file transfer protocol -- if Zmodem is a choice there IS no other choice.