Borrow/Share a CD ROM from my desktop?

[quickster01]

I have a mini notebook that doesn't have a CD ROM. I want to know the cheapest, most economical way to connect it to my desktop so that I can use my desktop's cdrom to download software etc to my mini. I guess I could buy a portable cdrom for my mini which will set me back about $50-70, but am trying to go econo. I am hoping that there will be a super-duper cable that will allow me to hook both of them up together. Thanks in advance.

[borgdrone1of2]

http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif hello
i use a duble male ended parell printer cable to net work two computers together i got a 14'foot cable for $10.00 cd.its not super fast but its depeneble takes a bit to set up winows 98 to m.e or 89 to xp m.e to xp was easer.
have a nice day

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[iisbob]

What borg is referring to above is called DCC or Direct Cable Connection and is a feature of 98/2k/XP allowing you to connect to systems ( with these OS's ) using either a male/male parallel cable, or with a male/male serial cable.

It's main drawback is it's only one way, which means you can pull data from the host, but you cannot push data from the guest back to the host.

If you have a network card installed in both of these systems, i would sugggest creating your own small network-using a standard cat5 cable and the two NIC's, you'll have to manually assign an ip to both, and give them unique computer names; then you can browse/share to your hearts content.

Go here; World of Window's Networking (http://www.wown.com/) and follow the easy instructions { for either DCC or ethernet-what i recommend } to get up and running.

Good luck http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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iisbob

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[tmwhalens]

i am having problems assigning IP#'s to my two machines at home. both machines are on a LAN connected to cable internet via a LinkSys router then a cable modem. when i select the option to automatically assign IP's i am able to browse the internet with both machines and share my printer. but, when i assign IP's to each machine i am not able to share resources or even get on the web. what am i doing wrong? i would love some directions on this. i am really new to networking. i had a networking course at the college, but we really didn't do any real hands-on work with networking machines together.

[iisbob]

Instead of piggybacking this post, tmwhalens start a fresh one.



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iisbob

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. -- Mark Twain.

[tmwhalens]

i see your point, i just didn't want to encourage having a gozillion threads on the same topic http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif i'll start a new thread on this.

[Paul Komski]

Using DCC is definitely the cheapest way to go. It is the hardest to setup well (and that is my main criticism of DCC) but if the right network protocols and settings are used and the "other" computer is setup as a mapped drive on both pcs; and the correct drives/folders are correctly shared; then it will behave very similarly to two networked computers using NIC cards.

Help for Direct Cable Connection (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5704/dcc1.html) may be of some value.

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