on 9/19/03 12:32 PM, iMac List at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While messing around with this stupid PC and my iMac, trying to network the
> two directly, I was going through the Direct Cable COnnection utility and was
> looking that ports available to use. One option available is "Parallel cable
> on LPT1" and the other is "Serial Cable on COM1." I don't know why I'm just
> thinking about this now, but neither of these options refers to the ethernet
> card in my machine. They refer to the actual parallel and serial ports (which
> I haven't used on this PC in a LONG time).
> So I'm still stuck, but I think I understand a little better why I'm stuck
> now. Can someone help me out and tell me how I'm supposed to work out a
> direct connection through the two ethernet ports?
> Brian
Do you have to tell the PC that it is being dirrectly connected to annother
machine. I would think that using an ethernet crossover cable would make
both machines recognize that they are on a 'network'. Just because the
network only includes 2 devices, doesn't mean that protocals for networks
with multiple devices won't work. You may want to assign IP addresses to
each machine, so they don't try to find them over the network (and you don't
have to go looking arround to find out what they decided to assign
themselves). Of course you can always just throw in a hub between them to
have a 'real' network.
David Robarts
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