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>On Wed, 01 Apr 1998 20:38:30 -0800, Marc Weidenbaum wrote: > >>I imagine this is an old subject for this board, but does anyone have any >>advice for inexpensive way to link a desktop and a thinkpad? I've heard >>that Win95 can do it over a serial cable, but I know little more than that. If as implied you are using Win95, you can use its built-in Direct Cable Connection utility. Beware that the instructions in Win95 are grossly inadequate -- they make it sound like you just plug in the cable, fire up DCC and go. You have to first install networking protocols on both machines, then enable file and printer sharing on BOTH machines (not just the one that has the disk or printer you want to access). Use the parallel version, which is much faster than the serial version. DCC requires a special cable but it is cheap and widely available (got mine for $6.99 from WalMart).