Is this possible?
The PCs would need to be sharing a printer, and i'm wondering if this is possible by plugging a USB cable between the two and either using some software or whatever.
Cheers..
Ben
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Is this possible?
The PCs would need to be sharing a printer, and i'm wondering if this is possible by plugging a USB cable between the two and either using some software or whatever.
Cheers..
Ben
yes. belkin do one, costs about £30. or you could just buy 2 usb-ethernet adapters and some crossover cable which is probably a better long-term solution
If you have usb2 on both, those belkin usb cables can do some pretty fast speeds (faster than 100mbit iirc).
http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-in...quicklinx=2FW5
would that work for sharing printers aswell?
Ben
p.s. one of the PCs is XP and one is 2K
afaik each pc just sees that as a network adapter, and you can then just use the pcs as if they were networked normally. nics would be cheaper thou
yes but not as easy for a noob to install..
I just need to know 100% if this kit would work for printer sharing.
Ben
email belkin and ask
it's made by Trust not Belkin... either way i will try...
oh and anyone know where to get the Belkin one from?
Ben
Sorry to jump in, but does anyone know aobut Firewire networking? Oh, bunji, it should support printer sharing as it'll run a tcp/ip layer.
firewire networking works just like normal networking but with tcp/ip being the only supported protocol. and you need windows xp or later and windows me has basic support. stick with two network card with a cross over cable and force them to full duplex. you should get around 8mb/s
Aye, I've got a full-on 100mbps network here at home, but was wondering if a firewire cable would provide me with faster data transfer (firewire is 400mbps) between my laptop and main rig for when I need to transfer divx rips, datasets etc.