FILE SHARING THROUGH DIRECT CABLE CONNECTION

A network adapter and cable is usually the way to go when computers need to be connected together for file transfers and sharing. If you have 10/100BaseT Ethernet cards in your computers, you could even skip the hub and use a "cross-over" cable plugged directly into each of the two cards (a cross-over UTP cable has pins 1 and 3 and 2 and 6 crossed over in the RJ45 plugs). But another way to share files is to make a direct cable connection using Windows 95, 98, or 98 SE.

Before you start the direct cable connection, make sure that you have a compatible parallel or serial cable. For definitive guidelines including cable pinouts, check out the document at

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If despite all your attempts, the connection fails with a message such as:

Status: Connected via Parallel cable on LPT1. Looking for Shared folders. Cannot find the host computer.

Then the problem may be a corrupted vredir.exe file--a key Microsoft Networking file. To fix the problem, extract a copy of the original file from your installation CD using extract.exe and your Windows .cab files.