Linking 2 PCs using a USB Cable?

[Bunjiweb]

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

[5lab]

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

[amoeba]

If you have usb2 on both, those belkin usb cables can do some pretty fast speeds (faster than 100mbit iirc).

[Bunjiweb]

http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-in...quicklinx=2FW5

would that work for sharing printers aswell?

Ben

[Bunjiweb]

p.s. one of the PCs is XP and one is 2K

[5lab]

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

[Bunjiweb]

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

[5lab]

email belkin and ask

[Bunjiweb]

it's made by Trust not Belkin... either way i will try...

oh and anyone know where to get the Belkin one from?

Ben

[Zathras]

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.

[slugs]

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

[Zathras]

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.