Win XP Laptop & Home PC Parallel connecting

[nexus123]

I am trying to connect a laptop running XP Pro to a Desktop PC running XP Pro using a direct cable connection on the LPT. I can get them to connect, but the host (the desktop) shows under Active Incoming Connections 1 unauthenicated user connected. I can't map the network drive or share the internet connection. I believe this is due to the user being unauthenicated. Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful.

[andyp1]

Have you an ethernet port on each.
You need a cross-over cable.

That's all I have and no problem with network.

[nexus123]

Well I installed an ethernet card into the desktop. I bought one from office max because it was only 10 bucks. I couldn't get one for the laptop it uses pc cars (not pci like the desktop) and the cheapest ethernet card for it was 30 dollars and I wasn't willing to spend so much. Anyway I installed the card into the pc. I decided that I was going to use it to connect to my cable modem because I had been using usb which is slower. After installing getting it all setup, I discovered that I couldn't access my cdrom so I'm like what the hell. I go into the control panel and check out the device manager, its got the yellow ! symbol beside my cd-rom, dvd-rom, and the scsi cd image something or other. I try adding new hardware it tells me that the driver is missing or the device is not recognized, so I cut it all off take the card out reboot yadayadayada and my cd-rom and crap are still not working so I'm like shit now what. So I work furiosly for three hours plus still not having them working. Man this blows oh well anyway I'm still working on this parallel connection and any help would still be appreciated also if anyone has any ideas on my cd device lemme know.

p.s. Yes I double checked all of the physical connections to the devices to see if I had bumped anything loose. Also do ya'll know if you can still by ide control cards, I know they used to make them in isa not sure if they still are made for pci.

[gmatov]

Nexus,

As you show 1 unauthenticated user, you have connected. It is just that one of your machines refuses to divulge any info to the interloper.

You need to get some permissions from somewhere, and it may very well take a re-install, on both machines, to attain it.

Sorry.

Cheers,

George

[nexus123]

Thanks for the advice. I've done a new install on the laptop right before posting the original message. I did the desktop right after posting that last message. I got my cd devices working now. and I believe I'll give it another shot.

[808smokey]

Yup,

They still sell IDE controller cards, maybe $25.00.

If it were my computer, both of them running XP. I would delete the items that have errors in the device manager (the ethernet card you might need the driver disk). DVD,CD-roms don't have drivers, like a video or sound card does. Reboot and let windows find them again. When it's done reboot and then use the CAT-5/ethernet cable to network them. Then run the "new connection wizards" on both. It should only take about 5 minutes max to network two computers running XP, Turn off the built in XP firewall too. That will give you a lot of problems when setting it up, at least for me it did.

[nexus123]

Well I had tried all of that. I had the ethernet card working fine I was using it to connect my modem to the computer. I tried deleting them from the taskmanager it didn't work so, I did a complete reinstall/format. Got all of that running fine. I'm not willing to drop 30 bucks on on a pc/card ethernet card for tge laptop. It's just mor than I want to spend. I've connected a windows/95 to a windows 98 machine using the parallel ports and a direct connect cable so I figured I could be able to do it with xp anyways thanks for the advice guys.

[nexus123]

Well I did it fellas, just for ya'll who thought I shouldn't couldn't or wouldn't hahahahah! I've got them both connected via a parallel cable. Have the desktops c drive mapped onto my laptop and am using the internet on the laptop through the desktop with the aid of a proxy server running on the desktop pc. YAY! I'm posting this from the laptop. Neways wish I new why she wouldn't work w/out me have to reformat and reinstall, but I suppose I was due for it anyways. Thanks for the help guys!