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Paul,
What you say is basically true-- this is why I recommended finding a local
nerd to do the install.
It is not true that you should necessarily have needed to edit your
registry-- which adds a severe level of complexity that I wouldn't wish on
anyone for any reason. Whoever advised editing the registry probably didn't
know some basic and simpler techniques that should also have worked.
The machine that has all its IRQs allocated is always the problem. In this
situation, it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice some component-- maybe a
sound card -- they can use up to 3 IRQs -- Is sound that important??? -- Not
in my machine. Not compared to a program that puts bread on the table.
As far as the parallel port cable solution is concerned-- it is definitely
easier to set up but the speed comparison would rival a turtle vs. a lear
jet. Ok for small files, but a TradeStation back-up might take as long as
a Ken Starr investigation.
My solution: Hire the Nerd...
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At 05:00 PM 3/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Your simplest solution is to get two Ethernet cards (NICs) at your local
>computer store and a cable to connect them. A basic card for a desktop is
>$30 to $40 and somewhat more for a PCMCIA card if you're also running a
>lap-top.
>
>You'll also need to set up the Win networking on each computer but the Help
>facility has install and troubleshooting procedures that are pretty good--
>or you can get your local nerd to do it for you for a modest fee.
>
>Once it's set up, you'll have 10 Megabit per second transfer between your
>computers via the Win-Explorer program. You can also link several machines
>this way.
>
>For basic machine-to-machine communication and transfers, it leaves Zip
>Drives, serial links, and other external types in the dust...
>
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>This approach does work, as I just completed doing it. I networked
>together 2 desktops and 1 laptop.
>
>However, this was not an easy task.
>
>One machine already had all the IRQ's in use.
>
>One machine has Win95B installed on it. Altho many things about this
>release are much improved, it is very intolerant of any mistakes during a
>hardware install. In fact if you make a mistake, you are SOL unless you
>know how to edit the REGISTRY.
>
>All done and said, I would say I have about 20 hours invested.
>
>My reccomendation is if you have only 2 machines, buy the special parallel
>port cable and use direct cable connect. It works well and is pretty
>straight forward.
>
>Regards,
>Paul
>
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