How to connect laptop to desktop 1

[ben64]

I have an Acer Travelmate 506DX I'm fixing for a friend, I've gotten a lot done, but I was wondering if there was any way to connect it to my desktop without buying anything for the laptop. Like - Is there any way to connect a Serial port to an ethernet cable? Or - How can I make a null-modem cable and get it to work?

 

[wolluf]

If both machines don't have a network connection, next best is probably a null modem parallel connection (unless one or both are running NT, when it will have to be serial - parallel is faster than serial is all). You then need to enable/install direct cable connection software on both machines (you don't say what version of windows - look here

http://www.lpt.com/Support/DCC-SetUp/dcc-setup.htm

or here

http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/dccnt4.htm

for help).

If they do both have network card/connection, just get a cat5 crossover cable and set up networking (

http://www.wown.com).

 

[ben64]

I'm using Windows 98, thanks for the sites, I'll try that, and let you know.